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RCMP being sued over 2011 Pass Creek pot raid Castlegar staff West Kootenay Advertiser

Inspector Nick Romanchuk of the RCMP’s Kootenay Boundary Detachment has confirmed legal action by a number of Castlegar area residents is being launched against the RCMP. The action relates to a 2011 raid on what was a licensed medical marijuana grow operation in the Pass Creek area. The incident occurred in early 2011 and received coverage by the Castlegar News, including an April 7 story which related, in part: “According to police, the number of marijuana plants found at Velma Mullaney’s residence in Pass Creek exceeded what was allowed un-

der the licences issued by Health Canada to her and her boyfriend. “The pair is legally allowed to grow 98 plants, but RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew said police had evidence there were more plants than that in production, based at least partly on high levels of power consumption at the residence. After obtaining

a warrant, police searched the large rural property on Feb. 24. “Mathew said three separate officers each counted more than 98 plants, but she wouldn’t say exactly how many plants were counted. “Mullaney’s lawyer, Don Skogstad, said his client claims police later told her they had counted 99 plants.

As a result, Skogstad told the Castlegar News he doesn’t expect the Crown to pursue charges.” Mullaney is now suing for assault, malicious prosecution, and false arrest, among other violations. Mullaney went to great lengths to stay within the limits of the law, Skogstad added, and was confident that she and her boyfriend had only 98 plants in production. “She was absolutely positive,” he said. “When you do this type of thing, you try to be careful.” No formal charges had been filed against Mullaney in relation to the February raid, in which her 18-yearold grandson and a person under the age of 18 were also arrested.

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The province has earmarked over $76,000 to help control the spread of invasive plants in the region, including the land around Rossland. Two grants have been handed out to local regional groups — and 28 grants province-wide — like the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary ($40,500) and the Central Kootenay Invasive Plant Committee ($36,000) to assist their activities

and support the objectives of the provincial Invasive Plant Program. This funding is in addition to the $534,000 already earmarked by the Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations for invasive plant control and management in 201314. The committee and the regional district work together to raise public awareness, survey invasive plant populations and actively treat high-priority sites to control the spread of invasive

plants. The regional weed committee also serves as a forum for land managers and other stakeholders to co-ordinate treatment activities and participate in outreach and educational opportunities. There are currently 12 regional weed committees in the province, including the Central Kootenay Invasive Plant Committee. Invasive plants are not native to a particular ecosystem and have the potential to displace long-estab-

lished species. They can cause considerable economic and environmental damage. Invasive plants may disrupt natural ecosystems, reduce biodiversity, increase soil erosion, alter soil chemistry and adversely affect commercial crops. The program The Invasive Plant Program identifies sites where invasive plant species have been found and responds rapidly to contain and eradicate

them before they become established and start spreading. Currently, some of the most intrusive plants in B.C. are orange and yellow (non-native) hawkweeds, garlic mustard, cordgrasses and knotweed. Other targeted species include knapweed, giant hogweed, black henbane, blueweed, common tansy, tansy ragwort, hoary alyssum, field scabious, leafy spurge, purple loosestrife, yellow flag iris, Himalayan Balsam and Scotch Broom.

Rossland children’s author captures imaginations Rossland staff West Kootenay Advertiser

Children’s author and Rossland resident Yolanda Ridge [Authors for Earth Day] visit at the Rossland Public Library was a great success. The Grade 3 students from MacLean Elementary School voted and choose Wildsight as the organization who will receive her presentation fee as a donation. Each year award-winning authors and illustrators schedule special

school visits in honour of Earth Day. Together these participants have already touched the lives of thousands of students and contributed almost $16,000 to conservation. Authors for Earth Day is an international coalition of children’s authors and illustrators who care about kids and nature and the future of both. The coalition promotes environmental awareness to help young readers shape the world around them.

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Aylwin City: Visions of stock exchanges and railway depots greg nesteroff West Kootenay Advertiser

“Through the Walls of Time” — eighth in a series on West Kootenay-Boundary place names Aylwin City was intended to serve the Enterprise mine in the Slocan. Formerly known as Ten Mile and sometimes misspelled Alywin, Alwyn, or Alwin, the name honoured brother hoteliers George and Charlie Aylwin of New Denver. According to Elsie Turnbull in Ghost Towns & Drowned Towns of West Kootenay, “Charlie Aylwin built a boardinghouse for the 30 or so men who worked at the mine and named the community after himself.” The name first appeared in the New Denver Ledge of January 7, 1897: “The hotel at Aylwin City, on Ten Mile was opened to the world this week.” On May 22 of that year, the Sandon Paystreak indicated some doubt

The old Aylwin home in New Denver, which still stands, ca. 1900.

about the name: “A new townsite is being formed on Ten Mile Creek, near the Enterprise group by J. Lukov of Trail and J. Fleischman, Vancouver. The name of the town is not yet settled on.” But on June 19, the Sandon Mining Review confirmed it: “C.E. Wood, PLS is at present engaged in a survey of the townsite of Aylwin on Ten Mile Creek, near the Enterprise mine.

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miles east of Slocan Lake” but otherwise little was heard of it over the next two years. The hotel closed at some point but reopened, according to the Ledge of July 6, 1899. On November 9 the paper reported: “Aylwin, the upper townsite on Ten Mile, is a busy little burg, owing to the operations of W.C.E. Koch’s sawmill.” Ads for the Enterprise Hotel at Aylwin also appeared in the Ledge from May to August 1900. The final mention was in the Paystreak of July 5, 1902: “John A. Craig of Aylwin is spending a holiday in town.” The Ledge of December 11, 1902, however, showed George Aylwin held the liquor license for the Enterprise Hotel at Enterprise. Was this an error or had the hotel moved? The rival Enterprise townsite was about a mile from Aylwin. Nothing is left at Aylwin City, though the Aylwin home still stands in New Denver.

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to the Environmental Damages Fund, administered by Environment Canada, which directs money from fines, court orders and voluntary payments to projects that benefit Canada’s natural environment. Toxco was fined for a similar infraction in 2005 when it pleaded

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doctors relocating to the area which helps the higher range market but for the most part the number of listings seems to be the same and prices about the same. It’s taking a bit longer to sell a home. It’s definitely a buyer’s market.” Richard Daoust, of Century 21 Kootenay Homes, says he is cautiously optimistic about the local market in the coming year. “We’ve seen what appears to be a step up in activity in the last four to six weeks.” said Daoust of market conditions. “In March we saw increases of about 15 per cent in sales.”

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Community Grand Forks BMXers get ready to let it ride KARL YU West Kootenay Advertiser

Grand Forks’ BMX Club is getting set for another season. According to treasurer Marg Kovacs the season will run from May 1 to Sept. 25 and people of all ages will be racing at the track at Grand Forks’ City Park. “Our first race is on a Wednesday night and we’ve got probably close to about 40 riders that will be coming out, anywhere from the age of three up to adult. We have some parents that are racing as well,” she said. Kovacs said there are many races that go on within the province with other clubs and club members have a chance to take part in those as well. “They have the op-

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The Creating Caring Communities Committee announced their second annual spring conference, scheduled for May 2 - 3 at Selkirk College in Castlegar, B.C.

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Roy Allan Deans passed away peacefully at Kootenay Lake Hospital on April 17, 2013 with family by his side. He was a true woodsman and long-time resident of Mission & Powell River, BC, and most recently resided in Winlaw, BC. He will be forever missed by his wife Joan, daughter Maureen (Rick) of Fort McMurray, AB, son Marvin (Liz) of Powell River, BC, and grandchildren Cory, Stephanie, Derick, and Bobbi-Lynn. He was predeceased by his son, Kenny, brother Rod, and parents Ed and Bell. He will be truly missed by his family and friends. A memorial tea was held Sunday, April 21 at the Passmore Hall. A celebration of life will be held in Mission, BC on Saturday, May 4, 2013.

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The Kootenay Music Festival has been a shared event with the Nelson Festival Society since 1931. It has alternated between the two cities every year since. The festival features young artists in the areas of voice, speech and drama, dance, piano, strings and other instruments. Those students who excel in the various disciplines are invited to go to the Provincial Festival held in June. U n f o r t u n a t e l y, there will be no festival in Trail this April.

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Greetings from the USCC Union of Youth Council. This coming May long weekend marks the 66th year of our annual USCC Union of Youth Festival. The USCC Union of Youth Council would like to extend a warm invitation to our greater community to come and join us as we celebrate culture, food, talent, and heritage. This year also marks the 70th Anniversary of our Iskra publication, and it seemed only fitting to us to honour this occasion with the inspirational theme: “The Spark Within.” With this theme we ask: “What awakens you?” To us, the word “awakens” could incorporate inspires, motivates, fuels, recharges, enlightens and any other feelings that may be associated with the most important things in your life. This exciting weekend is a time to come together with family and friends from near and far and celebrate Doukhobor culture through performance, nourishment, language, culture, and prayer.

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We believe it is important to all of us — children, youth, adults and elders — to contribute to the betterment of ourselves, our families, our organization and our broader community. Therefore we invite you all to collectively celebrate each other and welcome your participation in our 66th annual USCC Union of Youth Festival. For more information, please contact Kalina Repin, Union of Youth Chairperson, at kalina.repin@gmail.com or Val Samsonoff at the USCC Castlegar office at usccbcc@shaw. ca or (250) 365- 3613. For more information on the Doukhobors, please go to www.usccdoukhobors.org.

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Would you consider buying pants from a lighting store? received from the web and other sources with your doctor or health care professubmitted

Do you remember the old TV commercial that asked the question, “You wouldn’t buy pants from a light store, would you?” The ad was trying to make the point that consumers should go to an expert source that can help them make an informed decision. The commercial ended with a confused man looking down at his pants made of light bulbs. The commercial was funny because it went against common sense. Viewers were left thinking who in the world would go to a lighting store to buy a pair of pants? That’s just silly! We are not just consumers of material goods; we are also consumers of information. We gather information to help us make important decisions. When it comes to information about health, it is very important to make sure our sources of information are the experts. Unfortunately, in today’s world, anyone can pretend to be an expert. The subject of vaccines is a perfect example; many people without proper training or credentials have claimed to be experts on vaccinations. It’s normal for parents to have questions about vaccines. Gathering information and making informed decisions is part of being a good parent. It’s also just

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My work as a wealth planner goes far beyond the role of an “investment” advisor. Yes, investments play a significant part of one’s wealth but there are many other aspects that form one’s financial world. A wealth planner will look at the big picture by incorporating tax minimization strategies, reducing risk associated with disability or death, as well as working with the mature and elderly who are dealing with estate planning and end of life issues. Most of us are aware of the importance of creating a will to ensure that our estate is dealt with and our assets are distributed according to our wishes. As wealth planners, we strongly encourage our clients

to work with a lawyer when creating their wills and we usually encourage them to set up a Power of Attorney as well. An “enduring power of attorney” allows the person named as attorney to make financial and legal decisions in the event that you become mentally incapable. An “enduring power of attorney” can be a useful tool when you are unable to make decisions about your assets - however it is a very powerful instrument and it can be misused. It is important to only appoint somebody who is completely trustworthy and who is up to the job of managing your assets prudently. Before a person agrees to act as your attorney, the person should be aware of

the duties and obligations that are described in the Power of Attorney Act. These include the duty: • to act honestly and in good faith • to act in your best interests, taking into account your current wishes, known beliefs and values and any directions that are set out in the document • to not dispose of any property that the attorney knows is specifically gifted in your will • to keep your assets separate from the attorney’s assets • to keep proper records, including creating and maintaining a list of your property and liabilities. Financial abuse of the elderly is a huge and growing problem, as frailty and rising rates of dementia

An enduring “power of attorney” allows the person named as attorney to make financial and legal decisions... can leave the assets of Canada’s aging population to the mercy of their children or other relatives. Some of those charged with the responsibility of caring for aging relatives can’t wait for them to die. They often use these power of attorney agreements to spend the seniors’ money on themselves. The people who carry out financial abuse are often well-meaning adult children who see no reason why Mom’s money should be

sitting in a bank account or funding her high-priced home care. This sense of entitlement on the part of family members seems justified, as it will be their inheritance anyways – why not tap into it now? There is one group that doesn’t understand their role and they innocently misuse the power of attorney because they don’t understand their responsibilities. Then there is the group that uses a power of attorney to ruin someone financially. In the most blatant cases (sometimes involving a new “best friend”) seniors can be targeted, exploited and left penniless and alone after granting this power of attorney to someone they hardly know. What’s different

with seniors is the results are often dramatic and the vulnerability and stress they experience is often what leads to death. The Public Guardian and Trustee can step in when there are concerns about how an attorney is acting, but it’s often not possible to recover lost money or property. It is one thing to turn the tap off and stop future abuse, but it is difficult to get money back that has gone down the drain. People who choose to use a power of attorney can name two people to act jointly, which could help provide a check against abuse. People can add a provision requiring the person appointed as power of attorney, to provide financial records to family members on a periodic basis.

There is another option available for people who have no one they feel they can trust and that is guardianship. Also covered by legislation, the Patients Property Act can help people who have no plan or whose plans fall through. In that case, the court can appoint a guardian. It could be someone the person has nominated or it could be someone else in the family, a friend or the public guardian. The court-appointed power of attorney is held to a higher standard of responsibilities and reporting, which can be an important safeguard. The court can also appoint a guardian if there have been allegations of misconduct or abuse.

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West Kootenay Advertiser Thursday, April 25, 2013

Community

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How many Anglicans does it take to change a lightbulb? submitted

More than lightbulbs have been changed at St.Andrew’s Church in Trail — although many of those have been changed, too — thanks to a recent Fortis upgrade program. Following on the heels of a dramatic garden overhaul in 2008, the facilities of the building’s Iona Hall have been the focus of substantial improvements since this time last year. Dingy single-seat restrooms, and congested loo lineups on the landing? Gone! The new facilities sparkle with his, hers, and handicapped designations, with room for multiple users at a time. Chilly grey-blue concrete with stained carpeting in the reception hall? Also gone! Now this fresh

public venue has new paint and flooring in an elegant earth tone palette. Supporting these changes have been the efforts and gifts of many, including dozens of individual donors from the local community. Artist Catherine Wetmore provided a gift of much of her life work through auction; contributing donor organizations include BC Rehab Foundation, Teck Metals, Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance, the Rufus Gibbs Foundation, Columbia Basin Trust, and the LeRoi Foundation. Community funders and local businesses have been the heart of this project. But the work is not yet done. Big plans for 2013 first involve electrical upgrades to bring the facility

up to techno-friendly standards, followed by installation of an inclined platform lift, capable of assisting individuals with physical disabilities to move up and down stairs. This enhanced accessibility will open wider the doors of Iona Hall to members of the public wishing to attend receptions or meetings or performances or teas or

any other event, or to use the FoodBank that is hosted here. One recent change, however, rings a sadder note, and leaves a silence in the musical fabric of St.Andrew’s: long-time organist Dr. Paul Crawford has taken his well-deserved retirement and is sorely missed. Who in the West Kootenay will fill his shoes on the

organ pedals? The instrument is a glorious Casavant pipe organ, dual manual (keyboard) with pedals; accompaniment is needed for choir practice once a week, and for a 10 a.m. service three Sundays a month. Until a replacement is found, Kenn Zukk is filling the role, but hopes a longer-term musician will come for-

“Double Edged sword” Continued from P. A16

It is so important to have in-depth discussions with your financial planner and your lawyer to be sure you are fully aware of how powerful this power of attorney document actually is. From a financial planning aspect, a power of attorney is a good doc-

ument to have, but it can obviously come with pitfalls. Often what is forgotten is the overriding rule: if you’ve been granted Power of Attorney: “your role is to provide maintenance for the person who has given you the power in the first place. Remember: It’s NOT your money.”

Debbie Perepolkin CFP CPCA is a wealth planner with Assante Financial Management Ltd. and Vice-President of The Affolter Financial Group Inc., in Castlegar. Please contact a professional advisor to discuss your particular circumstances prior to acting on the information above.

ward soon. Anyone interested in hearing more about the position, please contact Reverend Neil Elliot at 250-368-5581 or at Rev.Neil@telus.net. So how many Anglicans does it take to change a lightbulb? The old answer is “Ten, one to change the lightbulb and nine to say they liked the old one better.” But such grum-

bling is not the case at St.Andrew’s, where lightbulbs and other things – can be cheerfully changed when required. Find news and photos about St.Andrew’s on FaceBook, by searching “St Andrew’s, Trail.”

Submitted by Jennifer Sirges, Trail BC 250-368-6666

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Horoscope Michael O’Connor

for the

Week

April 26, 2013

Tip of the Week: The Lunar Eclipse Full Moon in Scorpio is shining a bright light of change and activation for us all. Scorpio is a water sign and the Full Moon in this element synchronizes with endings and deep emotional change. This is especially true due to the symbolism of Scorpio, the sign of death and rebirth, change, transformation, regeneration, purification, psychology, investigation, research, shared resources, sexual drive, inheritances, banks, taxes, insurance and all things deep, hidden, mysterious and esoteric. This is the 1st of 3 eclipses in a row making this an ‘eclipse season’. The exact degree of this eclipse is 5 Scorpio 46. The next one is the Solar Eclipse on May 9 at 19 Taurus 31 and finally another Full Moon Lunar Eclipse on May 24 at 4 Sagittarius 08. The close proximity by degree of the Lunar Eclipses first in Water then in Fire Signs adds to the complexity of changes that they will bring about. While traditionally eclipses were considered ill omens this is not at all necessarily true. It all depends on how they influence one’s Natal Chart and above all how they are interpreted, handled and integrated. Since eclipses bring a measurably added charge to the usual New and Full Moon, they are best regarded as influences of change to be accepted and consciously managed verses resisted. Deciphering the deeper and wider implications of their effects is where taking a close look at one’s Birth Chart and the practice of Astrology comes to the fore.

ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20)

LIBRA (SEP 22 – OCT 22)

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21)

SCORPIO (OCT 22 – NOV 21)

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 21)

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 21 – DEC 21)

CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22)

CAPRICORN (DEC 21 – JAN 19)

LEO (JUL 22 – AUG 23)

AQUARIUS (JAN 19 – FEB 19)

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22)

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20)

Your ambitions remain strong and your focus is sharp. Change is the law and everyone is feelings its added push these days. This has been especially true for you for the past 6-8 months. Now that the momentum has been initiated, it is a matter of steady perseverance. The time has come to establish new foundations. The planning stage is important.

A period of steady advancement has begun. You should feel a good deal of traction. This trend will continue for the next few weeks anyway. Be willing to try new approaches. There may be a variety of fronts to consider. It is important that you be extra cooperative. Your ambitions may be high yet cooperative actions are keys to your success.

Working steadily behind the scenes continues. This may include rest to recharge. Yet, you can also be productive. Making pointed changes in your daily routine is a good example of productive change. Is your lifestyle as healthy as it could be? Do you have any bad habits you can disrupt and break free from? Prepare the ground for new growth.

This is a time of completion and fruition. You are at a peak in a cycle that favours creative inventiveness. This inspirational burst of energy could also manifest as a budding new love interest. While romantic interests are implied, it could also be the beginnings of a wonderful new friendship.

A good deal of activity in your public and professional life is causing a stir close to home and perhaps vice versa. Now is a good time to make some strategic moves for advancement. Meanwhile old friends and loves and possibly foes from the past may re-enter your life. These changes will be felt at core levels.

Your sights are set on a bigger picture. A visionary fervour has taken hold and is leading you into new territory. One way or another you feel determined to build anew. Reaching out to others and networking is featured. Altogether, new initiatives and/or initiations are likely. Some of these could come on the heels of other things ending.

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Financial interests and considerations are keeping you busy now. Investments, inheritances, taxes and the like are more than on your mind. You may feel inspired to diversify as well. Whether it is venture capitalism or simply the desire to be free and financially stable enough to travel, it may be time to do the math.

A shift from work to pleasure should be evident now. You have likely taken some initiatives, perhaps especially in your overall lifestyle. Expect this trend to continue. Somehow you feel done with old modes of living and self-expression. Whether by choice or circumstance, the time has come for new ways of doing and being.

Spring is a time for cleaning and sometimes the need goes deeper than the home and garden. These may merit your attention as well, yet the call to clean, clear and cleanse could include your body, mind and/or emotions as well. Your willingness to make extra efforts to this end could have very positive results, but neglect could prove just the opposite

A good deal of activity close to home has been keeping you busy. If you did take the initiative to engage in creative projects, you should feel extra inspired now. Real estate deals and/or home renovations are strong possibilities. Family concerns and interests are implied. Expect the fruit of past actions to ripen now.

You have begun to set your sights on new horizons. This has activated key communications and organizational activity. Your study focus and search for new knowledge and practical information has been a key theme. You feel a sense of destiny and yearn for change and progress publically and professionally.

Shifts and changes in your income and financial set-up have begun. You are challenged to adjust to meet the changing conditions. Expect this trend to continue. Increasing your sense of security will motivate you. Generating new streams of income is likely. Desires for greater fulfillment in your relationships are core motivations.

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Antiques / Vintage Antique oak icebox, beautiful solid oak, excellent condition. 37.5”Wx22”Dx54”H $1300. Westbridge area.250-4462761

Farm Equipment 2- NH1036 bale wagons. JD 100 big square baler. JD 6x4 Gator 86 Freightliner COE 400 Cummins 250-428-3374 email rixnbee@telus.net NewHolland 286 Baler, $2,000. NewHolland 275 Baler, $1,000. Kubota L1500 tractor, 15HP, diesel, PTO, 3PT, comes with cultivator & back blade, $2,500. 250-442-9663.

Firearms WANTED: RIFLES, shotguns, restricted weapons, reloading equipment, decoys or any other shooting related items. Fully licensed. Glen 250-428-6750

Food Products BUTCHER SHOP

BC INSPECTED GRADED AA OR BETTER LOCALLY GROWN NATURAL BEEF Hormone Free Grass Fed/Grain Finished $100 Packages Available Quarters/Halves $2.55/lb Hanging Weight Extra Lean Hamburger $4.00/lb TARZWELL FARMS 250-428-4316 Creston

Garage Sales 4619 Carlson Rd ~ Blewett 9am - 2pm Saturday May 4th Follow the signs!! CASTLEGAR Estate sale household items, furniture collectibles, Sat April 27th 8 - 1, 601 - 11th Ave Castlegar (Ootischenia) Multi Family, Sat, April 27th 8 - 2, 1016 Bridgeview Crescent, Spring Cleaning 4 us Treasures 4 you Grand Forks April 27. 9-3pm. Many renovation / household items. 5130 Coryell Rd. Huge Multi-family. Mill Rd. Grand Forks Fri April 26, 2pm6pm. Sat. April 27, 8am-4pm. MOVING. Furniture, household goods, tools, BBQ, Apr 27/28 8am-2pm 5765 Taghum Frontage Road Multi Family: Fri/Sat April 26/27. 8am-? NO early birds. Kids stuff, household, books, cloths, etc. 7681 Phoenix Way, Grand Forks. Follow signs at Petrocan gas station. Over 2000 items, antiques, art, furniture, etc. 121 Sagamore Ave. Sat April 27th. 8-3 Sale: Camper van, household items, tools, something for everyone. Fri/Sat. April 26/27. 8am-1pm. 5730 Nursery Rd. Sat & Sun. April 27 & 28. 8am5pm. Water bed, coffee & end tables, lawn mower. 6275 College Rd. Sat/Sun April 27/28, Garden & farm items, lawn mower, shop tools, equipment, compressor, hydraulics,silver serving ware & much more. Bedding plants, geraniums,tomatoes etc. 140 Carson Rd. Grand Forks

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Real Estate

Jewels, Furs

Apt/Condos for Sale

Mobile Homes & Parks

Diamond engagement ring (Kolmel) princess cut set in gold and palladium. Diamond is nearly flawless and colorless. It is stunning! Appraised at $4100,selling for $3500, OBO. Papers included. Call or text 250 777-1779

Misc. for Sale 2007 tandem axle car hauler, $2,500/obo. 55kw diesel generator, new, $2000/obo. 60” box scraper, new, $450/obo. 250-442-6091. 2 lg pet travel cages, 30”1x 19”wx23”t, $70 ea. Pain relief designed by chiropractor. Be your own chiropractor for neck, back, shoulders & hip adjustments c/w carrying case, $70. Call 250-446-2761. Afghan, apple boxes, canning jars. 250-442-8429 Craftsman 6HP rototiller. 250-442-8105 Electric scooter $600. Compound hunting bow w/carry case $500. Patio table w/six chairs $250. Flat screen TV w/video disc player $350. Cash only. 250-445-6758. FINAL SHOP SALE “MOVING” Welding, plumbing, S.S. pipe, PVC, pipe insulation, drill press, tools, 8” bench grinder, 200 amp Lincoln welder, painting, gardening. A few household items. EVERYTHING MUST GO !!! April 27/28. Sat/Sun. 8am4pm 2315 Konkin Rd. HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper? Olympia electronic compact typewriter c/w cover & wood desk, extra supplies $200; Lelonghi toaster oven, bakes & grills, like new. 250-446-2761 Reno surplus; dishwasher, range hood, metal bathtub, s/s kitchen sink, vanity sink, toilet, electric hot water tank, kitchen cabinet doors. 250-442-3060. SAWMILLS FROM only $3997 - Make money & save money with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSaw mills.com/400OT 1-800-5666899 Ext:400OT. Small tiller, computer desk, printer, futon, round wood table/chairs, oil painting, lg wall mirror, cat scratch stand, books. Free-TV & Encyclopedia Britannica set. Reasonable prices. 250-442-2913. STEEL BUILDINGS/metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-4572206 or visit online at: www.crownsteelbuildings.ca Topsoil, Sand, Road Gravel Fill with delivery call for prices 250.359.7188 c:250.304.8158

Castlegar Unit #11 Stellar Place

2 bdrm/2 bath/corner unit new flooring thru out baseboards/paint renovated kitchen oak cabinets with pullouts screened porch/central vac/new hot water tank 55 plus adult community Price $250,000/to view Call 250-365-9661

For Sale By Owner GREAT STARTER HOME &/OR INVESTMENT ON RIONDEL RD. above Kootenay

Lake. 4 k to Ashram 4 k to Riondel & beach. 2 3/4 acres & 2 storey unﬁnished (but furnished) “Small is Beautiful” cabin. Good benches for building, one with lake view. In Aug,12 appraised at $170,000 but older, ﬂexible vendor open to offers & might carry part of mortgage for suitable person or couple. For info & viewing please call : 1-780-5660707

Houses For Sale FRUITVALE, 14yr.old updated 1/2 duplex, 2030sq.ft. finished. 2-3bd, 2 full bths, high eff furnace, new hot H20 tank, gas FP, 2 full kitchens, low heat costs. Pics can be emailed. $225,000.obo. 250-367-0062 Grand Forks 1900+ sq ft log house, lg diameter logs, vaulted ceilings, refinished hardwood floors, new kitchen and bath, 3bdrms, on very slightly sloped 27+ acres. 1/3 treed, looks across Granby Valley, creek runs across southern boundary, turtle pond, 5 min walk to river and bridge, fenced, horse buildings and outdoor arena, vender financing or lease to own, $409,900. 250-442-6134. Grand Forks: 2.5 acres, 4 bdrm, 2 bath (one up-one down), finished basement, garage, shop, great location, $329,000. 250-442-0222. Grand Forks By owner. Great location, fully fenced yard, 2 + bdrms, must sell, asking $170,000. 250-666-0215. PRIVATE SALE Beautiful Heritage Home w/large yard. www.111HighSt.tumblr.com Private sale new 2200 sq ft Nelson lakefront home on Johnswalk 1101 Sproat Drive $729,000 includes taxes 250-226-7809 ROSSLAND, brand new for sale or exchange for older one www.rosslandbuilder.com 250-362-7716

Homes Wanted

Musical Instruments

WANTED IN ROSSLAND: HOUSE or CONDO To Rent or Buy for June 1st. Reasonable pricing. Can commit to Long term lease of 1 yr, minimum 3 bedroom with yard & garden space. Upper Rossland or Red Mtn. Resort area preferred. We are a family with behaved outdoor dog & cat. Professional couple with steady income and children. Please call 250-362-7681 evenings & weekends or 250-2312174 daytime. Monika

Musical Instruments, Lessons Books & Accessories P.A. lighting sales & rentals BAY AVENUE MUSIC, TRAIL 250-368-8878

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Misc. Wanted Needing ride to Spokane and back on 6th & 18th of May. 250-447-6144. True Coin Collector Looking to Purchase Collections, Accumulations, Olympic Gold and Silver coins, Bills + Not melting down, Serious Collector. Call: Coin Couple 1-778-281-0030

Plants /Nursery BELTANE NURSERY

Quality Nursery Stock Large selection Fruit Trees & Bushes Like 2 Blueberry Bushes $15 250-428-2062 Creston, B.C.

Real Estate Acreage for Sale Grand Forks: Prime 5 acre property, 1/2-km east of Fructova School on Victoria Rd. $187,000. 250-442-1212.

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Lots Duplex lot, can be commercial, all services. 3010 First Rd. $83,000. 250-442-7130. No messages. NOVA SCOTIA’S Eastern Shore. Waterfront lots for sale excellent climate near the Atlantic Ocean. Three bedroom house for sale or rent www.sawmilllanding.com or waterfront@bellaliant.net call 1-902-522-2343 or 1-902-3284338.

Greenwood: mobile home, treed corner lot, 2 bdrm, laundry, garage, sm shop, RV parking, close to creek, asking $84,900. 250-445-6340.

Rentals

Transportation

Halls/Auditoriums

Property Management

Auto Financing

Grand Forks Holy Trinity Anglican Church hall rentals. Contact 250-442-5808. Grand Forks Seniors Hall for rent. Capacity 115. Full facilities. 250-442-4265.

RETIRE IN Beautiful Southern BC, Brand New Park. Affordable Housing. COPPER RIDGE. Manufactured Home Park, New Home Sales. Keremeos, BC. Spec home on site to view. Please call 250-4627055. www.copperridge.ca

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Grand Forks; Very lg 1 bdrm retro design apt, 5 appl’s, $800m, utils incl. 2 bdrm, 1.5 bath, lg den area, 4 appl’s, close to dwntwn, $850/m. 3bdrm, 4 appl’s, lg fenced yard, $900/m. 3 bdrm, 5 appl’s, 1.5 bath, semi private on acreage, $900/m. Greenwood: 1 bdrm home, 4 appl’s $550. 3 bdrm home, 4 appl’s $675. N/S, N/P, References. Ken: 250-442-2632 ken.dodds@yahoo.ca Grand Forks Realty Ltd.

Acreage Land wanted: 5+ acres,Area E or D, $100K max. Call Dan 250-584-5124

COMMERCIAL & OFFICE SPACE Available in Grand Forks and Greenwood

Apt/Condo for Rent Bella Vista, Shavers Bench Townhomes. N/S, N/P. 2-3 bdrms. Phone 250.364.1822 CASTLEGAR, 1Bdrm. ground level, f/s, $600./mo.util.incl., avail. immed. 604-512-4178 Castlegar 2 Bdrm Apt 900 sq ft. F/S, D/W, laundry on site, grassed fenced yard one parking stall per apt. Clean bright and quiet. Ground level N/S, N/P $725/mth + utilities, 365-5070, leave msg Ermalinda Apartments, Glenmerry. Adults only. N/P, N/S. 1-2 bdrms. Ph. 250.364.1922 Francesco Estates, Glenmerry. Adults only. N/P, N/S, 1-3 bdrms. Phone 250.368.6761. FRUITVALE, D/T, 1bd. ns/np, Ref.req. $525./mo +util. Avail. May 1.Call/text: 604-788-8509 Grand Forks: 1 bdrm apt. NS, NP, senior preferred, $550/m includs utils. 250-442-4241. Grand Forks: 2 bdrm, downtown, all appls, laundry, NS, RR, May 1st. $850/m + utils. 250-442-5984 / 250-442-0952. Grand Forks Basement suite 2 bedrooms $675/m + utilities. Private entrance with parking, W/D, No Smoking. Call 250442-3365. Grand Forks Lg 2 bdrm apartment. Avail May 1st. N/S, RR. Market Ave. 250-442-3084 or 250-584-9269. Grand Forks: Newer 2 bdrm apt in 6-plex, ground level, available now. 250-838-9757. NELSON: Downtown, bachelor apt Mature single adult. ref NS/NP $625/m incl util. 354-4779 or 825-4666 ROSSLAND, 2BD furnished, unfurnished, short or long term, N/S, N/P. 250-362-9473 SPECIAL OFFER: Move in May, Jun. or Jul. & get Jan. for free. Trail/ Fruitvale, Redwood Apts., large 1&2bd suites w/view, parking, laundry, storage. Starting @$500./mo. Steadily working/ Seniors/ families. 250-367-7643 TRAIL, Rossland Ave., 3bdrm. avail. immed. f/s, w/d. dishwasher, newly renovated, N/S, N/P. $750/mo. 250-368-1361 WARFIELD, 1BD. F/S. Coin laundry, storage. Secure bldg. N/S, N/P. $625. util.incl. 250367-2154

Commercial/ Industrial CASTLEGAR

Peak Physique at 279 Columbia Ave has moved leaving 1800 sq ft Prime Main floor area with 2400 sq ft lower level with kitchen ladies/men change rooms & showers. For information call Peter 250-365-7551 Creston COMMERCIAL BUILDING

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Located DOWN TOWN Excellent High Traffic Area Plenty of Parking 250-428-5240

Duplex / 4 Plex Midway 1/2 Duplex, 2 bdrm, 3 baths, jacuzzi tub, 5 appliances, 2 large storage areas, lg sun deck Carport, 30A RV plug air-to-air HVAC, $950/m incl util & internet access HDTV access avail for $50/m call 250 449-8171 / 250 4498170.

Terms negotiable

Mobile Homes & Pads

RV Pads

ROBSON Mobile Home for rent, Refer & Criminal check required, Call 250-304-4862

Homes for Rent 1940’s Art Deco House for Rent 3 bdrm + 2 Bath, small office/Child’s Playroom Finished Basement Beautiful Views of the Big Orange Bridge & Elephant Mountain $1800/m + Util Lots of garden space for springtime growers! Avail May 1, 2013 jaylenechesney@gmail.com Bright Brand New HOME in Balfour S/S Appliances, gas fireplace, W/D, perfect for retired couple,N/S $1200/m 229-2154 CASTLEGAR, 1400 sq ft House, southend, 3 Bdrm F/S, W/D, A/C, N/S, N/P References required, Avail June 1st, $950/mth + Utilities 250-362-5468 Castlegar 2 Bdrm House on Columbia Ave, big yard storage, $750/mth + utilities Call or text 250-304-7490 CASTLEGAR DT, 4 Bdrm yard, lot of parking, N/A Pets nego, W/D, F/S, Avail May 1st, $1200/mth + utilities Call 250-869-2207 Grand Forks 2 bdrm house, 5 appl’s, close to schools, NS, RR. Avail May 1st. 250-4423084 or 250-584-9269. Grand Forks 2-bdrm house with F/S, W/D. N/S, N/P. Available May 1. $750/mo + utilities. 250-442-3964. Grand Forks 2 bdrm rancher, 4 appls, $825/m + utils. 250442-3276. Grand Forks: 55+ gated community, 2 bdrm , 2.5 baths, hardwood flrs, gas fireplace, central air, all amenities close within walking distance, furnished. $950m utils incl. 250442-6975. Grand Forks: Newer 3 bdrm & den, 2 bath, on acreage, 5 min up North Fork. N/S, Pets outside. $990/m. Avail May 1st. 250-442-1244. Greenwood- spacious condo, N/S, pet neg. $620. 250-442-2449.

2bd 55+

MIDWAY 4 bdrm +2, split level, large fenced yard, 1 1/2 baths, pool, W/D, F/S, freezer, new kitchen, N/S $700/mo + DD, references 403 801-6042 Newly renovated 2-3 bdrm heritage house. Bright & beautiful. fenced Yard. Hardwood Floors. S/S appliances. W/D, N/S, N/P $1500/m. Avail May 1st 250 551-8036

WANTED quiet renter; Montrose small 2bd. FS, NO PETS, $425/mo 250-367-7005 W.TRAIL, small 1bdrm, may be 2bdrm house. $450./mo. 250-551-0267

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Suites, Lower Castlegar 2 Bdrm basement suite, unfurnished, Private Ent & Patio, Oglow sub $700/mth + 1/2 electrical Avail May 1st, 250-365-6895 Christina Lake. Basement suit 1bdrm +/den, close to beach, $700/m utils & internet included. partly furnished, RR, NS, NP. 250-505-4275. Spacious 1 bedroom suite NS, NP, WD, FS. $800/m Available Now 250-352-6975

Suites, Upper DT Castlegar 2 Bdrm Basement Suite, F/S, DW, Shared W/D, N/S, N/P, $850/mth + 1/2 Utilities, References required, Avail May 1st, Phone 250-304-4806 please leave msg Grand Forks: Lg very clean quiet 1 bdrm, large deck, 10 min to town. N/S, N/P, utils incl, $650/m. 250-442-0026.

Townhouses Edgewater Townhouse in Glenmerry, 3bd, 1.5Bth.,f/s, $850./mo. 250-368-5908

Want to Rent Grand Forks - 2 retires couples with 2 horses want a sm acreage for long-term. 250535-0330. Grand Forks: lot for Camper with power hookup. Dog must be OK. 250-584-4344. NELSON: Affordable unfurnished living/working space for senior male artist. Income guaranteed; solid references available. Personable, N/S, N/P, reliable tenant. Please contact Charlie 352-9876 Nelson: Single woman in 40’s requires housing. Can pay $400 either for own suite, or shared situation in Nelson or North Shore to Balfour. Considerate, quiet, responsible neat freak with good references! Please contact Marie 352-9876 Retired Single Gent N/S, requires modest rental Rural Castlegar, Blueberry Thrums preferred Phone 250-399-4330

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TRAIL, 3BDRM., newly renovated, new wood floors, 250368-9558 Updated 3 bdrm on Lower Fairview, Full Kitchen with F/S, W/D, Micro, Cedar Porch added Aug/12. Big Basement good storage $1500/m + util. Fenced in Yard w/storage shed jaylenechesney@gmail.com

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2000 Chrysler, grey,moon roof, heated seats, new battery,fully loaded, 262,000 km $2,000 OBO 250-445-6763 2010 Red Mustang. 5spd manual. Pony Package. Never winter driven. Just 21,000kms. Asking only $16,900. 250-2316851. Mustang Convertible 2010, Black w/cream interior, pristine condition, retiree owned, 21086/km, vinaudit available, asking $24,600. 250-442-5810

Vehicle Wanted

Cheap or free, in running order, sm truck or car, 250-4427130. Evenings, no messages.

Recreational/Sale

2000 21.5 ‘ Travel Trailer, dry weight 2780 lbs, well maintained $9500 352-9753 2006 33ft. Rockwood ultra lite trailer !/2 ton towable. Excellent condition. $18,900/obo. 250-442-2750. 2006 Wildcat 5th wheel 24.5ft. Like new, NS, NP, dinette slide, SOLAR, hitch. $15,500. 250-442-0972.

Snowmobiles

136 snowmobile track, 1/2 in. lugs, $250. 153 inch Powder Attack track, $200. Both great condition. Treadmill, like new $400. 250-442-2013.

Sport Utility Vehicle

2002 Blazer, 4x4, fully loaded. 2 utility trailers. 17ft Coleman canoe. Bed. 250-447-6341. 2009 Hyundai Veracruz 7pass. 117000km. well maintained, mounted snows, hitch, extra mats, window&hood deflectors. $18,000. 250-364-1940

Trucks & Vans

1992 Chevy all wheel drive 8 person van. 250-442-2010. 1993 Ford Coachmen Econoline 150 Van, runs great, 175,000km, asking $3,800. 1990 Ford 2 whdr, F-150 Custom truck, runs great, asking $1,200. 250-442-0077 Canopy-maroon, fits full size truck, slider side windows. $250 obo. 250-446-2501.

Boats

2007 Bass Tracker TXW 175, 60hp Merc, electric motor guide, loaded, low hours, $12,500/obo. 250-445-6340. • YOU’RE APPROVED • YOU’RE APPROVED • YOU’RE APPROVED •

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Thursday, April 25, 2013 West Kootenay Advertiser

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Thursday, April 25, 2013 West Kootenay Advertiser

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This booklet reprints 38 Kootenay pioneer profiles that ran weekly in the Nelson Star in 2012, along with seven other profiles that appeared in the paper prior to that. In retrospect, Kootenay Pioneers wasn’t a very good name for the series — insofar as when we would approach people, they’d often say things like “Oh, I’m not really a pioneer. I wasn’t born here. I only arrived in 1947.” Didn’t matter. So long as you had an interesting story (and everyone does), we weren’t going to get too hung up on criteria. Those profiled in this booklet range in age from 66 to 101. All have lived in West Kootenay for at least 40 years. They come from Nelson, Willow Point, Crescent Valley, Slocan City, Slocan Park, Kaslo, Ymir, Salmo, Gray Creek, New Denver, Ainsworth, Argenta, and Passmore. It was fun getting to know them. I wrote all of the profiles, except Earle Cutler, by Megan Cole, and Ev Kuhn, by Andrea Klassen. Five were prepared as obituaries, while three other profile subjects (Johnny Oliver, Fran Horan, and John Hopwood) have since died. I feel lucky we got to them in time. Photo galleries and in some cases extended versions of these stories can be found at nelsonstar.com by searching “pioneer profiles.” Special thanks to Kamala Melzack for the booklet design. — Greg Nesteroff, April 2013

GUS ADAMS: Goalie left ‘em laughing

hough well-known for his hockey exploits and as the father of an NHL star, friends and former teammates say they remember Gus Adams for his jovial nature best. Adams, a former Nelson Maple Leafs goaltender and local businessman, died last year at 77. Born Costadinos Adam in Greece, he added the S to his surname and was always known as Gus. His father died when he was about ten, and his mother, unable to support her seven

children, sent him and a brother to live with an aunt and uncle in Brandon, Man. Gus started playing hockey around age 12, but couldn’t skate, so was put in goal. “He had such a passion for the game that it didn’t take him long to catch on,” son Greg says. “To be part of the hockey team was all he wanted. Playing goal was the opportunity.” Adams played junior with Brandon and Lethbridge before coming to Nelson in 1955. For three seasons he was the senior Maple Leafs’ top goalie.

“It was just a fantastic time back in those days,” he recalled in the Nelson Daily News in 2005. “We had fantastic rivalries with Trail, Kimberley, and Spokane. Hockey was the buzz of the community.” Adams also played a year in Rossland before he was recruited by Streatham of the British league. However, he was refused permission to land because he didn’t have a work permit. After a day stuck on the boat, the matter was resolved. Adams later returned to Nelson and played a few more years in goal before taking over as team manager. Although frequently pitted against Trail goaltender Seth Martin, the two were actually close friends. “He was a stand-up goaler and covered the angles well,” Martin says. “One time we played the Montreal Canadiens old-timers in Trail. I didn’t do very well in the first half, but Gus played very well in the last half. I never heard the end of that one!” Off the ice, Adams was a salesman for Mel Buerge’s Ford dealership, and had his own Honda dealership. Martin says his forthcoming personality made him well suited to the job. “Everytime I met him, he always made me laugh. He could tell jokes and say things to put you at ease — and then, of course, he’d sell you a car.” Adams also bought in to the Lord Nelson Hotel (now the New

Grand), where the restaurant was known as Gussy’s. At 39, he returned to Greece and was reunited with his mother and twin sister. Though Adams never made the NHL, he lived the dream vicariously through son Greg, and often travelled to see him play. When Greg scored in overtime to send Vancouver to the 1994 Stanley Cup final, Gus wept for joy. “Gus Adams told me it was the most exciting moment of his life,” Canucks play-by-play broadcaster Jim Robson recalled. “He said everybody was coming up to him and hugging him and there were tears running down his face.” “I think he may have enjoyed it more than I did,” Greg confirms. Adams also passed his love of golf on to his children and was an excellent gardener. In recent years, he and wife Darlene wintered with daughter Tracey in Bellingham, but returned to Nelson in the summer. Adams passed away September 1 at his home on the North Shore following a lengthy illness. He’s survived by his wife, daughter, and sons Greg, Jamie, Jeff, and Gus Jr., as well as a sister in Toronto and three sisters in Greece. Left: Gus Adams, seen here with the Soo Canadians in an undated photo, was known for his quick wit and personality as much as his hockey skills.

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LOIS ARNESEN: Throwing out the welcome mat

hen you love the place you live, introducing it to others is a

pleasure. And for 21 years, Lois Arnesen did just that: as a Welcome Wagon hostess, she was one of the first points of contact for Nelson’s new arrivals. “It’s very interesting because you meet all sorts of people from all different areas of the world,” she says. “And a lot of them became friends.” For her last three years, she welcomed all comers, but prior to that primarily looked after the baby program, and greeted newborns at the hospital — over 2,000 of them. “It was maybe ten a month, times 12 months, times 18 years,” she says. Arnesen isn’t the only Welcome Wagon hostess with remarkable longevity: Edna Whiteley, who recruited her, did it for 44 years before retiring. Frances Welwood has been at it for 27 years. “Welcome Wagon was always very pleased with us because we had such a stable workforce,” Arnesen says. “We enjoyed it, were all very keen about our town, and felt we were ambassadors promoting all the good things about Nelson, which we were happy to do.” Arnesen is a life-long resident. Her parents, Bert and Jeanne Whimster, arrived here in the early 1920s. Her father was a

printer at the Daily News, and then bought out W.H. Jones commercial printing in the bottom of the Madden Hotel. “My dad belonged to every organization in town so they all had to have their printing done at H.M. Whimster,” she says. “He did very well and was very proud of his business.” Soon after her birth in 1928, the family moved to 3rd Street in Fairview, where Arnesen and her elder sister (well known in Trail as Muriel Griffiths) were raised. They also had a “wonderful” cottage at Crescent Bay called NoEats — which her father wryly named because there was always plenty to eat. “He absolutely adored this cottage by the lake. The more people that came, the better he liked it,” she says. “So he had the place filled.” The cottage was a popular destination for her friends, and as she and her sister got older, their families. Both girls attended UBC. Lois graduated in 1950, then worked at the provincial health lab in Vancouver for a year, before returning to the Kootenay and commuting from Nelson to the C.S. Williams clinic in Trail by bus. “There were many buses in those days between Trail and Nelson,” she says. “If you missed one, there was always another.” After Arnesen’s father died in 1951, her mother ran the printing business a further ten years, but

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when the Madden block was demolished to make way for a new Woolworth’s, she had to move to the rear of the Medical Arts building, where Kölmel Jewelry is now. In addition to her long service with the Welcome Wagon, Arnesen has contributed years of volunteer work to a myriad of organizations such as the Overture Concert Society, University Women’s Club, Touchstones Nelson, West Kootenay Music Festival, and United Church. (Although she took music and dancing lessons, she does not consider herself a musician: “I enjoy music, but somebody has to be in the audience.”)

Her retirement from the Welcome Wagon ranks was marked with a luncheon last year and the Knights of Columbus recently named her Nelson’s 2012 Citizen of the Year. “I was born and raised here, my children were born and raised here, and their children were born and raised here, more or less. So I am very fond of my little town,” she says. “It was a wonderful job. I think this is a special place and love telling other people about it.” Below: Lifelong Nelson resident Lois Arnesen retired last year from the Welcome Wagon after 21 years. She introduced hundreds of people to the community.

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AGNES BAKER: Witchcraft and the Phair Hotel

gnes Baker was a lifelong Nelson resident whose family history stretched from the Salem witch trials to the glory days of the Phair Hotel. She died last March 13 at 95. “A large part of Nelson’s link to her past went with her,” says friend and local historian Patricia Rogers. “She saw it all.” Baker’s grandfather, Edwin Ernest (Pop) Phair, was builder, proprietor, and namesake of the magnificent hotel at the corner of Victoria and Stanley streets where the library and police station now stand. Erected in 1891, and later known as the Strathcona, it burned in 1955. Baker’s father John Ayton (Jock) Gibson was Nelson’s postmaster and one of the signatories to the city’s incorporation petition in 1897. For a time, he managed the hotel — where he met Pop Phair’s daughter Gretchen. She worked at the Daily News, and was also a teacher, poet, and author. They married in 1915, and had two daughters, Agnes and Jean. “Money was tight but Gretchen managed to hold her family together,” Rogers says, adding Baker learned of Nelson’s beginnings “on her father’s and grandfather’s knees. As both did not die until she was in her teens, she had plenty of time to absorb the stories.” Inheriting her mother’s literary

and pedagogical proclivities, Baker worked as a teacher and also volunteered in the city’s library for many years. She enjoyed bird watching, walking, and tending to her flowers and vegetables, and with her husband belonged to the local naturalist and mountaineering clubs. Her granddaughter recounts her home “always smelled of homemade bread, cookies, or delicious sauces made from the garden.” She kept active by cross country skiing and playing bridge, and was deeply interested in West Kootenay history. “Agnes had a lifelong love for Nelson and its exceptional past,” Rogers says. “She very graciously shared her family photos and all her stories with me. Her mind was sharp — she remembered the most minute details, which made the stories all the more delightful.” In 2007, those stories were related at the Kootenay Storytelling Festival in Procter, as compiled and written by Rogers and performed by Susan LeFebour, who played Baker’s mother. “I had a few lunches with Agnes and Pat,” LeFebour recalls. “It was like a little window of history opened up, meeting someone whose family I was talking about. It was a great pleasure and privilege.” LeFebour says Baker was “overwhelmed” by the performance. “I think she was really happy her family was

brought to life. She could relive something of her family history — and what a family history.” In addition to tales of early Nelson, the story detailed how Baker’s great great grandmother was hanged as a witch. Mary Estey, a 58-year-old mother of seven, lived in Salem in 1692 when she was accused of witchcraft. Villagers blamed her living ghost for causing all sorts of bizarre things. One of Estey’s sisters was similarly executed, and another imprisoned. Twenty years later, the families received compensation for the wrongful deaths. It was just one of many

fascinating family anecdotes Baker could draw on. “Agnes was a wonderful woman and an incredible storyteller,” Rogers says. “She was a kind and gentle soul with enough feistiness to keep her with us for 95 years.” Baker was predeceased by Ted, her husband of 50 years, and her sister Jean — who married Ted’s brother. Above: Agnes Baker and Susan LeFebour in the summer of 2007. LeFebour portrayed Baker’s mother at the Kootenay Storytelling Festival. Inset: Agnes (Gibson) Baker as a child.

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RUDY BOATES: Snowslides and saloons in Sandon

t snowed so much in Sandon when Rudy Boates was a kid in the 1930s, he and his siblings could ski off the roofs. Tasked with shovelling the top of a neighbour’s house, they’d pile the snow until it was up to the eaves, then sail down the bank. Come spring, it was a game to lie on the now-bare roof and survey the still-covered hillsides, trying to spot the first snowslide, of which there were many. When he was four, Boates sat on his porch and saw a little girl named Evelyn Stewart go by with her father and dog. Moments later, a white roar swept over them, and Evelyn and the dog disappeared. Her body was recovered the next day from under 25 feet of snow. “The funny thing is my dad had a real sense of when slides were going to come down,” Boates says. “He’d go out on the porch and say ‘Lizzie, there’s going to be slides today. Keep the kids away.’ He could smell it in the air.” The second youngest of nine children born in Sandon, Boates spent his early years in a house that once belonged to the town’s pioneer physician, Dr. William E. Gomm. It burned down five years ago. Boates’ father James worked at various mills in the area, and “could fix anything at all. That’s how we wound up in Sandon.” When Rudy started school, there were lots of kids, and two teachers. Later, however, it was thanks to his large family that the

school didn’t close. Sandon’s heyday as the Slocan’s leading mining town was long over, but signs of its former glory were apparent in its boarded-up hotels and saloons. To satisfy their curiosity and prevent vandalism, kids were taken on an annual tour of the old buildings. “It was amazing. You’d walk in, and the Sandon House had the most beautiful bar. Great big mirrors. All the glasses were all in place, just like somebody had locked up on a Saturday night and went home.” One hotel even had its pool table, with all the balls and cues intact. That changed in 1942, with the internment of 900 Japanese Canadians: the buildings were emptied and converted into multi-family homes. The mirrors and pool tables disappeared. Boates played with the Nikkei children and recalls performances in the old miners’ union hall. “They used to put on all kinds of plays. We couldn’t understand them, but it was interesting to watch ... Eventually we learned some Japanese, but once the war was over, they all moved out, and that left Sandon with a population of 30-some odd.” By then, the Boates family had also left. Rudy was in Grade 7 and thrilled to move to Nelson. His family acquired a lovely home at 905 Edgewood Avenue. (He couldn’t figure out

how they could afford it until a sister told him the previous owner was fond of their mother.) He remembers sitting in Gyro Park and hearing horns and whistles when the war ended. Boates was in the building supply business for 25 years and later sold life insurance. A few years ago, he and wife Phyllis moved to Fruitvale to be closer to her family, but he maintains his involvement with the Nelson streetcar society, of which he is past president. He’s been back to his birthplace periodically, although due to fire, flood, and neglect, it’s now more ghost than town. “It’s just heartbreaking to see what happened there, if you knew what it was like before,” he says.

Below left: Rudy Boates is among the few remaining people born in Sandon. Right: Rudy (back row, far right) with brothers Bill, Jim, Lorne, and Fred in their yard in Sandon.

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MARY CARNE: Preserver of Greyhound’s past

ary Carne has been recording the history of Greyhound for over 60 years. Her bulging scrapbooks and photo albums constitute an incredible record of the company and transportation generally in the Kootenays and Okanagan. She packed her camera everywhere — earning her the nickname Mrs. Kodak — and typed captions for each print. She also saved ephemera including memos, ticket stubs, schedules, and passes that might not have otherwise survived. Her association with the bus line dates to her childhood in Winfield. “It started in ‘32 because my dad didn’t drive much,” she says. “Then when I went to business college in Kelowna, every morning I used to go in on the bus and come back by train.” She began working as a ticket agent in Kelowna in 1946 and later transferred to Penticton. She moved to Nelson on a whim in 1951 and never left. At that time, Greyhound was at 221 Baker, where Sacred Ride is today, but soon after a new depot opened at the corner of Hall and Baker, now Sidewinders coffeehouse and Bia Boro. The ticket booth, baggage room, and coffee shop were on the main floor while washrooms and a restaurant were in the basement. Buses pulled into the back alley and parked in a vacant lot. It was a busy terminal with

three trips daily to Vancouver, and three more to Calgary, as well as service to Trail, Kaslo, and Nakusp. “We had a real good business,” Carne says. “It was just after the war. Not many people could afford cars and they travelled by bus.” One couple went to Vancouver, down to California, across the southern US, and back up the east coast, all by bus. “The ticket was yards long, because they had to have a tear for each division point,” she says. While at the ticket counter, Mary met driver Max Carne, whom she married in 1956. Drivers had to be prepared for

all sorts of adversity, from snow slides to washouts to medical emergencies. Carne knows of babies born aboard buses, and drivers who spotted house fires. “The drivers often stopped to assist people off the road,” she says. “They were quite a courteous bunch.” (The Nelson division alone had over two dozen of them.) The toughest route was the old Rossland to Christina Lake highway, known as the Hump. Max once came across a circus transport trailer in the ditch and asked the driver if he needed help. “I already have help,” came the reply. Cue the elephants — who hauled the trailer out.

New highway passes in the 1960s were a boon for Greyhound, but eliminated service to the East Shore. Before long, the Kaslo and Nakusp runs were also gone. In 1963, the company dissolved its Nelson driver division, forcing drivers to move to Penticton or Calgary. The Carnes were already scouting homes in Alberta when Max learned the City of Nelson needed a bus driver. He took the job and stayed 23 years. Mary left Greyhound soon after her wedding, but returned a few years later. She also worked at Eaton’s and in circulation at the Nelson Daily News. Today you may find her working at the IODE thrift store or at the hospital, where for almost a decade she has monitored comings and goings at the emergency room following service cuts. Carne, 86, still updates her Greyhound scrapbooks, which are destined for the local archives. “I enjoyed my work with Greyhound very much,” she says. “They were a good company to work for and good people to work with. Just like one big family.” Above: Mary Carne, seen with one of her scrapbooks, is the keeper of Greyhound’s history in the Kootenays and Okanagan. The depot at the east end of Baker Street opened in 1951, not long after Carne came to Nelson. Today several businesses are in this block, including Sidewinders coffeehouse and Bia Boro.

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HARRIET CHRISTIE: Roots on the Mayflower

elson’s Harriet Christie, who turned 100 last year, comes from a remarkable

family. Her ancestors include Dr. Stephen Hopkins, governor of Rhode Island and signatory to the US Declaration of Independence; Edith Page Harrison, a prominent suffragette who married a descendent of American president Benjamin Harrison,

and passengers on the Mayflower. But Harriet’s own story is also remarkable. Born August 16, 1912 in Peace Dale, Rhode Island, she was the third of Chester and Elma Page’s seven children. Her father was a successful owner/operator of woolen mills, and she enjoyed a privileged upbringing. When she was 12, her family was displaced by the creation of the Scituate reservoir; somehow they ended up in the Oregonian capital of Salem, where her father rebuilt his business and became one of the city’s leading citizens. Harriet graduated high school there with honours in 1929, having skipped a grade. Although it was the start of the Great Depression, she had her own car and was working as a secretary when she met husband-to-be Frederick Christie. He was a West Kootenay native, born in Trout Lake City, who ran away from home at 15 to fulfill his fantasy of becoming a sailor. “By the time he got to the Panama

Canal,” says daughter Carole, “he found it wasn’t such a dream vocation.” Fred jumped ship at Seattle and came to Salem, where he had grandparents. He was a chef when he met Harriet — but her parents didn’t think much of him. “No way their daughter was marrying a Canadian,” Carole says. “They thought of Canada as a place of dogsleds.” Eleven days after Harriet’s 20th birthday, she and Fred eloped to Vancouver, Wash. — far enough away that her parents wouldn’t find out. Upon returning home, she kept the marriage a secret. “She was still scared,” Carole says. “My aunt remembers mom would always say she was going to the bathroom and then sneak out the back window.” Once Harriet was well along with first daughter Julie, the jig was up — although Carole doesn’t think her father and grandparents ever reconciled. In 1934, Harriet and Fred came to Creston, where his parents lived. Harriet was excited. “She thought it was going to be an adventure,” Carole says. “I’m sure she’d never seen a wood stove.” Fred became a forest ranger and the family moved around the Kootenays, including New Denver, Slocan, Marysville, and Parsons. They finally retired to Salmo before Fred died in 1996, after 64 years of marriage. Harriet now lives at Mountain Lake Seniors Community, where a party was held on her centenary.

Asked the secret to Harriet’s longevity, Carole notes her mother knew more about nutrition than most, and “watched her diet like a hawk.” When boiling vegetables, she’d save the water to drink. Her peak weight was about 95 lbs. — her children were all bigger than her by the time they were ten. Good genes must have helped too: her sister Helen lived to 98. However, as a young child Harriet suffered polio in her left leg, which required her to wear special shoes, and prevented her from running, though she loved swimming. (It also kept her from chasing after her children.) She sold Studio Girl beauty products, was something of a seamstress, and was crazy about the royal family. Harriet’s own family includes four children, 13 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild — all continuing a distinguished line. Left: Harriet Christie in Creston, 1934, and last year as she neared her 100th birthday.

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HANK COLEMAN: A visionary pilot

eorge (Hank) Coleman was a former Nelson city councillor and Regional District of Central Kootenay chair who wired Kootenay Lake hospital and once competed in a transatlantic air race. Coleman, who died last year at 85, was the first person in Canada to earn a pilot’s license with only one eye — he lost the other in an accident at age 10. His stepson Gary Burns, whom Coleman raised from boyhood along with two brothers, says federal regulations barred

monocular pilots until local MP Bert Herridge got involved. “Hank had flown as co-pilot with Bert in the plane. Bert brought the issue up in Ottawa and said ‘It isn’t our business how you achieve what you achieve. The result is good enough.’” Colemen went on to earn his instrument rating and float plane qualifications, and regularly flew across Canada and to the Carribean. He owned five planes in his lifetime, including a former RCAF Beechcraft 18 he bought with Ben Bengtsson in 1971. Outfitted with

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including the Kootenay Lake and Grand Forks hospitals, Celgar pulp mill, and Slocan sawmill. He also donated his time to wire the old Nelson museum and was regularly involved in troubleshooting at the city power plant. Coleman was elected to council in the 1970s, and chaired the Regional District of Central Kootenay for two years. He also ran twice unsuccessfully in Nelson-Creston for Social Credit. Burns says Coleman had a “profound sense of duty and service to his community.” “When it came to getting things done, he wouldn’t let much stand in his way. To say that he could be a tyrant at times would be an understatement. Hank was never afraid to do what he thought needed to be done.” Coleman eventually gave up his pilot’s license due to declining health — a sad day for him, but he never complained. “He was ever the optimist,” Burns says. “He thanked his lucky stars for all the days he could fly. As it was, he exceeded what most of us can do with both eyes.” Coleman’s funeral in Nelson included a flypast. “Just after they put the ashes in the grave, there were still a number of dry eyes,” Burns says. “But when you heard the four planes and a helicopter coming, there were none left.” Left: Hank Coleman logged many hours as a pilot.

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auxiliary fuel tanks and renamed the Spirit of Nelson, they entered it in a race from London to Victoria commemorating BC’s centennial. Despite having the oldest plane in the competition, they finished second in their class. A past president of the Nelson Pilots Association, Coleman once went to Ottawa with Mayor Louis Maglio to secure over $100,000 for an airport expansion. Naturally, he flew them there. Born in Invermere and raised in Windermere and Cranbrook, Coleman left home at 16. The military wouldn’t accept him for World War II because of his limited vision, so he ended up building air force bombers in a Halifax factory. His first visit to Nelson was not auspicious: he rode in on a motorcycle and caught the attention of a large police officer who threw him in jail, beat him with a rubber hose, and told him to stay out of town unless he wanted more. But Coleman returned, working for Bennett’s Electric before establishing his own business in 1954. When he visited the Bank of Montreal and asked to open an account, the manager asked what resources he had. Coleman replied: “A toolbox and $64.” That was the beginning of Coleman Electric, in the wedgeshaped building on Front Street. As one of few Class A industrial electricians in the area, Coleman wired many major projects,

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JAKE CONKIN: Slocan Park’s cowboy author

here’s a character in Jake Conkin’s trilogy of children’s books called Pearl Crebbin. She’s the “old spinster of the hills,” who’s “small and gnarly and weighs about 90 lbs. A puff of strong wind would probably lift her off the ground.” She hunts her own game and is heard to remark “Bear fat makes the best pie crust!” She’s based on an eccentric neighbour from Conkin’s childhood in Slocan Park named ... Pearl Crebbin. “She was such a special person in our lives,” says Conkin. “She and my mother were good friends.” Crebbin lived in a cabin on a hill above them, and her 160-acre property “was the centre of our existence ... We did everything there: bobsledding, skiing, hiking, picking hazelnuts.” The literary Pearl matches her real-life counterpart in every way. Conkin says in the summer, she was often seen walking down the road in her bathing suit, carrying a parasol, and “every so often the wind would grab her, and you’d think she was levitating because she was so light.” Kids would follow her to the river, pied piper-like. Pearl was handy with a rifle — but had to balance it in the crotch of a tree. “Often you’d find after she fired, she got the bear, but she’d be lying flat on her back because the recoil knocked her over,” Conkin

says. “She actually used the bear fat for making pies.” During storms, she insisted on leaving her cabin doors open — reasoning that lightning would pass through the house instead of hitting it. Crebbin was also briefly Slocan Park’s postmaster — a duty she inherited from her late mother, then relinquished to Conkin’s mother Lola in 1945. At first, the post office was in Conkin’s bedroom. (He remembers people coming to buy stamps while he was still asleep.) Later, his parents added on to the house and opened a combination store and post office. Later still, he helped his father Sam disassemble several Japanese internment shacks at Lemon Creek, and the lumber was used to build the new Slocan Park store and service station. There was finally enough traffic to justify the expansion: previously it was so quiet, fewer than a handful of cars rattled along the gravel highway each day. Conkin, who was in the second graduating class at Mount Sentinel, became a teacher. His first assignment was at Perry Siding, and he went on to spend 18 years as principal in Winlaw. Taking early retirement, he pursued his passion for cowboy culture — which he traces back to a childhood incident where he heard “whooping and yelling and hollering” outside. “Before I knew it, there were

15 to 20 horses coming down the road, and behind them were cowboys all dressed in their finery. As they went by, I thought: that’s what I want to be.” The notion never left his mind. Conkin worked on some of Canada’s largest ranches, penned a book of cowboy poetry, and with wife Carol toured schools with The Buckaroo Jake and Calico Carol Show. He also wrote the Little Jake series, about a young boy growing up on a ranch in the Nicola Valley, based on his experiences riding with the Douglas Lake Cattle Company. His stories have since been adapted for the Aboriginal People’s Television Network as an animated show and even an

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RONALD COX: Last of Nelson’s Can Scots

elson’s Ronald Cox is a survivor. He lived through several dangerous missions during World War II, spent time in a prisoner-of-war camp, and is among the last veterans of the Canadian Scottish Regiment who stormed the beach at Normandy. At the regiment’s 75th anniversary reunion in 1987, Cox was one of 300 remaining vets who took part in the Allied invasion. When they got together again last year in Victoria, there were only 14. The Vancouver Island-based regiment also fought at Vimy Ridge during the First World War

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and has had members in Bosnia and Afghanistan. Their centennial was a big deal: 800 people came to the banquet and the vets, about 60 from several eras in the regiment’s history, lined up on a football field on a frigid afternoon. “When they walked down, you couldn’t believe the roar from the audience,” Ron’s wife Sheila says. “It put tears in my eyes.” Cox, now in his 90s, has been to all but three reunions in the last 30 years. Following Bill Oke’s death last year, he’s also the last of the Can Scots in Nelson. Born in Wales, Cox came to Canada with his family and lived

in Fernie for seven years before moving to Nelson in 1936, where he worked at Kootenay Breweries. He enlisted in Vancouver in 1940 at age 20, and shipped out early the following year. At first he stayed at a 200-year-old army barracks in England, where a hay-filled bag was his mattress. Yet that was luxury compared to what he endured over the next four years. “I don’t know how he ever made it,” Sheila says. “I’m glad I didn’t know him then.” The D-Day landing site was a well-kept secret until shortly before the attack. “We didn’t know where we were going till we were off the boat,” Ron says. “Normandy? That doesn’t mean anything to us. Just another piece of dirt.” Cox’s regiment was part of the first wave to land, and he was among the first on the beach. His orders were to take out a Nazi pillbox — the concrete bunkers where gunners hid — but a barrage of bullets stood in his way. “When you’re getting off those boats, everything’s chaotic and the hail of stones they’re throwing at us … It’s like being under a tin roof when it’s raining.” By the time he reached his target, it was already destroyed. Cox was in France for months afterward, coping with daily battles, furtive sleep, and a relentless onward push. Near war’s end, he found himself in a firefight near Cleves,

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Germany. An explosion knocked him out and he awoke to find bits of shrapnel embedded in him and a pistol pointed in his face — but it came as a relief. “It’s a strange feeling, being captured and knowing you’re safe,” he says. “They wouldn’t harm you as long as none of the SS were there.” He and four colleagues marched into Cleves, then went by train to Hamburg. Placed in a prisoner-of-war camp, he suffered blood poisoning and was given little to eat. After 40 days, with the war in its final throes, prisoners were marched toward Russia — but turned around when the Russian artillery arrived. The Americans then arrived with food and supplies, and Cox’s ordeal was finally over. Back home in Nelson, Cox met Sheila Horswill, a dancer who moved here from Trail. They marked their 66th wedding anniversary last November. Despite weak ankles and failing eyesight, Cox is still active with the local Legion. “They think the world of him,” Sheila says. “We had a dance and were the only ones on the floor. When we got off, they all clapped.” During an interview, however, Ron admonishes a reporter: “I don’t want you to drum me up very much. Not at all.” But everyone else already does. Left: Ron Cox holds a photo of himself about the time he enlisted for World War II at age 20.

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EARLE CUTLER: King of the griddle

arle Cutler may be the closest thing Nelson has to an expert pancake maker. He’s been flipping the morning staple at the Lions Club Canada Day pancake breakfast since it started in 1952. “It was held in front of the Diamond Grill at that time, which is about the middle of Baker Street,” he says. “We’ve always had it on Baker Street and when we first set up, it was very primitive. We had cement blocks on the bottom with steel plates for grills.” Cutler became a Lion in 1945 and proudly sports a Life Member badge on his blue club vest. “The man I bought my business from when we lived in Taber, Alta. was president of the Lions and one of the stipulations was that I had to join the club, and I did. I’ve been a Lion ever since,” he says. Now in his early 90s, he has actually been a Lion longer than the Nelson club has existed. “The experience has been nothing but the best,” he says. “I’ve really enjoyed it. It’s very gratifying. We do a lot of good things and it’s hard work at times.” When the Lions began their pancake breakfast tradition, they would go around to local businesses for donations of pancake mix, sausages and other supplies. The event grew as Nelson hosted the mid-summer bonspiel, and as many as 200 curlers came

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to town each year. “Finally we went to the curling club and they put up $350 to buy the goods and from then on we’ve been buying it,” he says. “The curling club pulled out some years back

because they didn’t feel we needed it, so we took it on our own.” The highlight for Cutler is seeing familiar faces who return year after year from wherever they’ve ended up. “There are people that come back to Nelson for that breakfast from all over,” he says. “Mind you they’re getting

fewer and fewer, but some of the first ones are still coming back to that breakfast.” Curlers will often return and share memories and stories from their time in Nelson.

In the old days, they would line up for blocks to get some of the Lions’ famous flapjacks. “At one time we would start at 7 a.m. so the curlers would be fed before they got on the ice. With fewer curlers, it became a regular breakfast that started at 8 a.m.” Cutler moved to Nelson in 1951 after buying the SS Nasookin — retired a few years earlier as

the Kootenay Lake ferry. “It was down there by the Prestige and I was out here on holiday. I saw it was up for bid, so I bid,” he says. “That was in July of ‘50. We arranged to have it looked after until we moved back here in July of ‘51.” He was no stranger to the area, having been born in Vernon, and attended school in Trail from 1929 to 1941. Before buying the old paddlewheeler, Cutler owned a jewelry store in Taber where he did watch repairs. He landed there after serving in the military. “Serving my community is important,” he says. “That’s why I joined the military and that’s why my work with the Lions is important — different, but important. I think that’s what makes Canada unique. We have a strong sense of community and want to work to make the places we live great.” Cutler will be flipping pancakes again this year, and should it rain he says they’ll do what they’ve done in the past: “We move back to the canopies on Baker Street and set up the tables. We always manage to get through.” Left: Earle Cutler holds a poster of the Lions Club pancake breakfast ca. 1960s. He’s been flipping batter since it was first held over 60 years ago.

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BERNIE CZELENSKI: Mayor Bernie’s birthday

ormer Slocan mayor Bernie Czelenski turned 85 last year and the whole town celebrated. To his surprise, they turned out in large numbers for his birthday party at the Legion hall. “There were a lot more people than I anticipated,” he says. “A lot were old customers, plus some darn good friends ... well, they were all friends. Some I hadn’t seen in quite a few years. It brought back memories.” Czelenski came to Slocan 40 years ago with his son to establish a garage where Mountain Valley Station is now. In 1984, he filled a vacancy on village council, and a few months later was elected mayor. He earned a hands-on reputation. After the village bought a footbridge to place across Springer Creek, “I thought hell, I can build these myself a lot cheaper.” So he did, and helped put up two more. During his time in office, the village completed major upgrades to the ball park, including a reseeded field and new washrooms. Expo Park opened on Canada Day 1987. The first logger sports day was also held, and Czelenski designed a village logo. “I used to enjoy getting my hands dirty,” he says. “I didn’t want to rely on everybody else.” Mayor Bernie, as he was affectionately known, was reelected in 1986, defeated in 1988, elected again in 1990 and 1993,

and then lost in 1996, 1999, and 2002. In all, he was a mayoral candidate in eight straight elections. “I tried to work with people and help them the best I could,” he says. “Left some pretty good marks, I hope.” Born in Watson, Sask., Czelenski was the seventh of nine children in a farming family. When he was six, they moved to an area just north of Prince Albert and he attended the local one-room school. In his mid20s he served as a trustee on its board. Czelenski and his brothers learned carpentry and mechanics from their father, a blacksmith. In 1955, he moved to Alberta and managed a garage in Kinuso, then later came to Nelson and worked as a mechanic and welder. Striking

out on his own a few years later, he cast about for a place to start a business, and decided Slocan fit the bill. “I just figured it’d be a perfect place for a very good living, which it was ... I really enjoyed it here. I liked the people, plus the weather’s nice compared to northern Alberta. Then I met my wife here too.” When he first arrived, the sawmill was going full blaze, providing the village with a stable economy. No longer. These days, the idled mill worries him. “That’s a bad one. It employed a lot of people and brought

money to town,” he says. “I don’t like the idea of logs going out when they should be manufactured here. I don’t know what we’re going to do now for taxation with the mill down.” But he remains bullish on the village’s prospects. “They’ve got the new dock at the beach. Got a gazebo if a person wants to sit. I think something can still be done to save this country — I hope, anyway.” After his wife Joan died nine years ago, Czelenski was going to move back to northern Alberta, where he still had family. He sold his place and headed there — but soon discovered his mistake. “It didn’t suit me. I was there just a few days and [realized] that’s not for me. I had to turn around and come back home. This is still home. I’m happier than heck here.” Early this year, Mayor Bernie was presented with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for community service. Left: Bernie Czelenski was mayor of Slocan from 1984 to 1988, and 1990 to 1996. He also ran a garage and gas station.

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ERIC & PEGGY DENNY: A prospecting love story E

eggy MacLeod had a terrible cold. So she left work in Nelson early and headed home to Procter. But two younger neighbours came over and asked if she felt like going to a dance at the community hall. No, she insisted she was too sick. But they wouldn’t give up: “Our mom says we can’t go unless you go too.” Peggy finally relented. She found an old plaid dress “that had been on the floor who knows how long,” and the three girls headed over. At the dance, the women walked around one way and men the opposite way until the music stopped — at which point Peggy found Eric Denny beside her. “What’s your name?” he asked. Peggy told him. “You’re no relation to that old biddy out in the kitchen, are you?” he said. “Yes, that’s my mother.” Dancing by the kitchen, Eric tapped Peggy’s mother on the shoulder as she prepared sandwiches. “Hey mom! How would you like me for a son-in-law?” Peggy’s mother pushed out her arms to shoo away the impudent young man. Yet a year later, in 1951, there they were at St. Andrew’s United Church in Procter. The wedding reception was held in the longsince-demolished Holiday Inn, formerly the Outlet Hotel.

ric’s family came to the Kootenay from England in the 1910s. In 1922, his father bought property at Willow Point, not far from where Eric and Peggy now live. Peggy’s father Jack worked on the lake boats, “starting in his overalls,” aboard the Kuskanook, and worked his way up to become captain of the Nasookin. Her uncle Norman, meanwhile, was captain of the Moyie.

“Good way to be.” At 89, Eric is now the dean of Kootenay prospectors. Over the years, he figures he has held at least 1,000 claims, most of which he staked personally. Some he worked himself, and others he sold to companies that paid royalties if any ore was shipped. Among the more notable were a group of silver, lead, and zinc properties up LaFrance Creek on the East Shore of Kootenay Lake,

A mutual love of the outdoors made the couple wellsuited for each other. Beginning with a long trip he made with his father up Crawford Creek and down the St. Mary’s River, Eric became heavily interested in prospecting. It was his overriding passion, and also his livelihood when he wasn’t logging or sawmilling. “I was my own boss,” he says.

originally staked in the 1890s by Tom Wall, who had eight daughters and no sons. Eric took a couple of the daughters to see the workings. At Blewett, he took over gold claims at the head of 49 Creek from Bill Rozan, an old-time miner who learned his trade during the Ontario cobalt rush. Eric also had a long association with Lemon Creek, which was practically in his backyard, and

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holds a special fondness for the Lardeau, which produced several good finds. Peggy usually came along on his trips. “I’d rather be out in the mountains than inside,” she says. What’s the appeal of prospecting? “Richness,” Eric says. “Not really,” Peggy counters. “It was still interesting if you made nothing.” Eventually Eric taught prospecting classes. The most important skills, he says, are “having lots of energy and being attentive. You need to build up a bit of knowledge, too.” In 1993, he received the H.H. (Spud) Huestis award for excellence in prospecting and mineral exploration. The Dennys celebrated their 60th anniversary in 2011. Their love of searching for precious minerals has been handed down to son Jack who, like his father, has served as president of the local Chamber of Mines, as well as grandson Bob. Far left: Peggy and Eric Denny marked 60 years as a married couple in 2011. Left: Three generations of prospectors: Eric (right) with father Norman and son Jack in the Whitewater basin.

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AGNES EMARY: Lifelong learning

t 70, New Denver’s Agnes Emary fulfilled a lifelong dream to play the saxophone. “I always wanted to learn,” she says. “So I finally got one. It was kind of fun.” She took lessons from a local music teacher and got good enough to perform that year at her great grandson’s wedding. Now in her mid-80s, Emary still has the horn but doesn’t take it out very often. Despite limited training, she was also frequently called upon as an organist for church and Sunday school. When The War Between Us, a movie about the internment of Japanese Canadians, was filmed in New Denver, she was asked to play organ for a church scene. “I said well, I play, but with all kinds of mistakes. They said ‘That’s what we want!’” (She pre-recorded her part, and also appears in the scene, sitting in a pew, wearing a big hat.) Her participation in the movie was appropriate, given that she taught Japanese Canadian kids — she shared some of those memories last year in Slocan following the dedication of signs at two former internment camps. Emary came to BC in 1952 after four years teaching in her native Saskatchewan, and landed a job while attending summer school in Victoria. She told someone where she was headed, and he replied: “Oh, you’re going where the sun never shines in

winter.” That would be Sandon, and her friend exaggerated only slightly. As a Prairie girl, Emary was used to harsh winters — but not sheer mountains. The bus dropped her off at the Newmarket Hotel in New Denver, and then Mr. Kiyono, a jeweler who also ran a taxi, took her to Sandon. “When I got partway up I could see a mountain that still had snow on it. Here it was September. He said there’s going to be more snow before that disappears.” The school was on the upper floors of the old city hall (now the Prospector’s Pick). Emary — then known as Miss Parsons — had about 25 students in Grades 1 to 4, while fellow teacher Louella Prpich taught Grades 5 to 7. Nearly all the students were sons and daughters of miners. In those days, the Violamac was going strong, along with another mine in nearby Cody. The two young teachers roomed and took meals in the Reco Hotel, owned by Sandon founder Johnny Harris and his wife Alma, who also had the post office and only store in town. The accommodation was fine, but meals were sparse — “I sometimes thought the cats got more to eat than we did” — and the rent was about half their salary, so a room in the school was later fixed up as their apartment. The year was mostly

uneventful, although Emary enjoyed her first — and last — ride on a Norwegian sleigh: “They go like the wind. That’s what I learned.” Pete Leontowicz was on the back while she sat in front, and they flew down the Cody hill. “I was scared to death, coming from flatland Saskatchewan.” The following year, she transferred to New Denver, where she taught full time until 1970, and then substituted for many years afterward, in both the elementary and high schools. After she left Sandon, the school lasted only one more year before dwindling enrollment forced its closure. Another year later, a washout took out the flume that covered the main street and all but finished the town. Emary co-founded the local hospice society, was longtime chair of the reading centre, and is a life member of the Royal Canadian Legion. Last year, she received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal for community service.

Top: When Agnes Emary (nee Parsons) arrived in Sandon in 1952, it looked very much as depicted on this plate created by former New Denver resident Gwen McCarger. The school is seen at right. Bottom: On the street in Pontrilas, Sask., February 1943. Agnes is second from right.

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GORDON FLEMING: In praise of underwear

n 1971, Gordon Fleming wrote a poem for his University of BC English class about underwear. The opening lines were an homage to a similarly-themed work by American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. I didn’t sleep last night much thinking about underwear My own underwear I had to go home last weekend so I brought my underwear with me I mean I wore the usual amount and brought the last eight days in a plain brown paper bag However, after forgetting to take it back with him, he ends up washing his lone remaining pair in the sink, and hanging it out the window to dry — which makes him reflect on what a labour of love it must be to wash someone else’s underwear. He also wonders if anyone can tell he doesn’t have any on. In the meantime, what I am wearing — no underwear — is hard to forget I think about it and make mistakes in my work ... But really, underwear is a very private matter. It is a secret between me and my trousers. “That was the beginning,” Fleming, now in his mid-80s, recalls. “I didn’t think it was anything very special. I just turned it over to the instructor, who wrote on it ‘Terrific.’ I had no idea that it was. So that gave me the idea to send it to Ferlinghetti.” Ferlinghetti sent back a

handwritten note: “Dear Fleming — Thanks for your underwear.” Ever since, Fleming has been a prolific writer. “He’s an amazing poet,” says his daughter-in-law Barb. “Anything coming up — could be a birthday or a wedding — he would sit down and write. Christmas letters would be two pages of verse of what had happened the previous year.” When Parkinson’s disease reduced his voice to a whisper, he wrote a poem entitled Speech Therapy. He’s also written memoirs about being a scout leader, building his Bealby Road house, and growing up in Nelson as the seventh of Ross and Minnie Fleming’s eight children. For decades, his father was among the city’s most prominent figures, as an alderman, band leader, and proprietor of Fleming’s Grocery (later turned into an apartment building and then demolished in 1996 when Safeway expanded). Gordon’s memoir also discusses his fondness for motorcycles — which is how he met wife Lorraine. After a dance one night, he and some friends “let it be known if any of the girls would like a ride, our bikes were available. Lorraine was the only one brave enough to take us up on it.” He took her home, but she got off a block from where she was staying with her aunt and uncle, afraid they would see her on the

bike. Even so, the next morning her uncle, a police sergeant, asked: “Did you come home on that motorcycle?” The couple was already building their home when they married in 1950. “I don’t think of it so much as building this house as creating it,” Lorraine says. “It got changed and added onto so many times.” Gordon, the archetypal fixit guy, did much of the work himself. “He was always building, reinventing, and improving things,” says youngest son John. “It’s just a talent he has.” After many years as a machinist, Gordon trained in industrial

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TREVOR HARROP: London revisited

hen London hosted the 1948 Olympics, New Denver’s Dr. Trevor Harrop had a front-row seat as a swimmer for Great Britain in the 100-meter freestyle. No one said anything to him as he entered Empire Pool (now Wembley Arena). No team official offered last-minute encouragement. The lone spectator with a vested interest in his performance was his future wife Sheila, who travelled from northern Scotland and had no problem finding a last-minute ticket. “The whole thing,” he recalls, “was extremely relaxed.” Born in Winnipeg, Harrop moved with his family to Scotland to care for grandparents when he was seven. His parents returned to Canada in early 1948 — and in doing so missed his Olympic swim. The first post-war games were as low key as you could get, he says. They used only pre-existing venues, athletes stayed in military barracks, and food was still rationed. “Nobody really cared about the people who were going,” Harrop says. At Easter, Britain’s swimming chief began assembling potential participants. Most were gone a week or ten days for the trials, but Harrop, a dental student, was only granted the weekend. “Swimming wasn’t exactly an important part of the dental

curriculum,” he says. The trials were to be held in a big outdoor pool at Scarborough. Harrop, however, balked at its icy ocean water, and opted to train at a smaller pool in town — a fortuitous decision, for a ferocious storm forced officials to move the meet there. He placed third in the final, but didn’t know he’d been chosen for the team

until he put his clothes back on. Harrop was one of seven from Motherwell, near Glasgow, to earn an Olympic berth — an achievement he credits to their dedicated coach. But he then had to beg for further time off from his school’s dean, who told him: “You want to be a dentist or a swimmer? Make up your mind.” “Nobody really gave a two-penny damn [about the Olympics],” Harrop says.

Britain earned a lone bronze in swimming. In his heat, Harrop’s time of 1:02.3 left him 27th out of 41 swimmers. Soon after his minute of glory, he was on a train back to Glasgow. There was no hero’s welcome at the dental school. Motherwell town council did, however, give each athlete a £5

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arrop came to Canada in 1950 and married Sheila the following year. To their dismay, however, the BC College of Dental Surgeons didn’t recognize his training and would only let him practice in a rural area if he agreed to eventually obtain a Canadian degree. That’s how they came to New Denver. “I loved it from the minute we

got here,” Harrop says. After 2½ years, he made good on his promise to earn a degree by attending university in Halifax. But by that time, another dentist set up shop in Nakusp and, not wishing to compete for the small clientele, Harrop instead started a practice in Campbell River. Later, he helped establish the dental school at the University of BC and taught there for 25 years. He also did several overseas sabbaticals. All along, the Harrops summered in New Denver with their four children and ultimately retired there. Harrop, 85, hasn’t thought much about his Olympic moment. But last year, the British Olympic Association invited him to London for the 2012 games, along with all other surviving athletes from ‘48. Of the 50 members of his swim team, 17 are still alive and nine accepted the invitation, including him. Trevor and Sheila attended a royal luncheon as well as a reception hosted by London’s Lord Mayor. At the games themselves, they took in tennis, basketball, and swimming. Above, left: Trevor Harrop around age 13 in Motherwell, Scotland. Above, right: Harrop still has the trunks he wore swimming for Britain at the 1948 London Olympics.

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LILLIAN HICKEY: In a whole different league

ew people realize Nelson has a League of Their Own connection. In the 1940s, city native Lillian Hickey spent two years with the Kenosha Comets of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, made famous to later generations in the 1992 movie starring Geena Davis and Tom Hanks. The second oldest of Robert and Jean Hickey’s six children, Lillian showed oustanding athletic ability from an early age. “Lil was an outgoing, vibrant person and a talented all-round athlete during her era,” says her niece Bev Lapointe. “She loved sports and excelled in whichever sport she touched.” At 13, she started playing senior softball for the Nelson Red Sox, and was described in newspaper reports as “a brilliant batter and outfielder.” She won the city league batting title in 1941, and for years was among the top players on the Nelson rep team. She also played basketball, bowled for a team that won the first inter-city ladies five pin tournament, and regularly swam across Kootenay Lake, winning numerous swimming and diving competitions. During World War II, she worked in the Civic Centre manufacturing parts for Boeing’s Catalina Bombers, and then in 1942 moved to Vancouver to play ball for the Pacifics. Over three seasons, she divided

her time between third base and outfield, and was among the league’s best hitters, never batting below .382. When an offer came to turn pro, she demurred at first while trying to convince pitcher and fellow Nelsonite Hazel Johnson to join her on the Pacifics. Ultimately, however, she did head south to play for Kenosha, Wisc.

In 1946, she appeared in 21 games, went 13-for-61 at the plate, with three runs scored, three runs batted in, one walk, one stolen base, and 13 strikeouts. The team finished seventh in the eight-team loop, with a 42-70 record. The following year, she attended spring training in Chicago and then went on a twoweek tour of Cuba. In the second week, her team’s exhibition games drew 75,000 people. They followed it up with a whirlwind

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tour of the American south. Hickey then made her way home from Ontario, working at the Banff Springs Hotel en route. In 1952, she went to Panama and spent a few years living among the locals while working on a banana plantation. Upon returning to Nelson, she was active in the early development of the Silver King ski hill, and was elected president of the Nelson ski club in 1954. After her death of pancreatic cancer in 1965 at the far-too-young age of 43, a ski trophy in her honour was created for the most “sportsmanlike skier on the hill,” which well described her. Though she was only eight when her aunt passed away, Lapointe says Hickey “had a tremendous impact in my life and I still think of her often.” A standout softball player in her own right, Lapointe credits her aunt with teaching her to swim, ski, skate, and play ball. Around the time A League of Their Own was made, someone called the family asking if they had Hickey’s old uniform. Unfortunately not, although Lapointe does have some Cuban cigars with Hickey’s name and “Kenosha Comets 1946-47” inscribed on them.

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In 1998, Hickey was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame as one of 64 Canadians who played in the All-American league, including five others from BC. (Ironically, they accounted for more than 10 per cent of all players.) “Lil’s athletic ability coupled with the opportunity to play ball carried her far beyond the limits set out by society for women of that era,” Lapointe says. “She was and will forever be my hero.” Left: Lillian Hickey (back row, third from left) with the Kenosha Comets of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, August 16, 1946. Below: Lillian was at home on the slopes as well as the diamond. A trophy was awarded in her honour for “most sportsmanlike skier.”

AYA HIGASHI: Kaslo’s embraceable ambassador

o say Kaslo’s Aya Higashi was a popular teacher would be an understatement. Old students invite her to weddings and anniversaries. She’s held their children. They packed the gym for her retirement party. And she swears she remembers them all. Her popularity probably had to do with her egalitarian approach: she never played favourites, treating everyone equally. “Sometimes former students say ‘We were bad kids, weren’t we?’ I never knew a bad kid. In 33 years of teaching, I never yelled at a kid nor strapped nor shook them,” she says. “My kids, I hug them.” When she encountered several in the grocery store, they clogged up the aisle embracing. Another is now a 65-year-old grandfather. The generation gap has long since closed, and she considers them all friends, insisting they call her by her first name. Higashi, now in her 90s, is the only Japanese Canadian still in Kaslo, which results in many requests to speak to tour groups, schools, and visitors. Reticent at first, “in case I said the wrong thing,” she has since become more comfortable in the spotlight. She still finds the attention slightly embarrassing, but takes pride in being an ambassador for the village. Walking down Front Street, she is recognized and

greeted by nearly everyone. “It’s an honour to be known but also a heavy weight,” she says. “I have to be a good person. I can’t make a mistake. It’s a big responsibility.” Born in Campbell River to Kiyomatsu and Kane Atagi, Aya grew up on Quadra Island, where her father was a boat builder. They later moved to Vancouver, where she graduated high school at 16. She wanted to go into either medicine or education, and took pre-med courses while working at a doctor’s office. Then the war changed everything. During the internment years, her family lived in an abandoned house in Kaslo, minus her

father, who was working in the Crowsnest Pass. They didn’t see him again for years. Aya had never lived near other Nikkei families, and discovered her spoken Japanese was formal and stilted compared to her contemporaries. At 19, she began teaching in the Kaslo internment school in the Giegerich block, which is still standing. Later, she became principal of the Popoff farm school, near Slocan City. After the war, she attended Vancouver Normal School to obtain her BC teaching certificate, and despite many offers to go elsewhere, returned to Kaslo to fulfull a promise to the local

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principal. She taught mostly senior high, specializing in commerce and home economics. In 1949, she married Buck Higashi, a catcher on the Slocan baseball team who impressed her with his kindness. They were together 59 years. They had no children of their own, but Aya considers all her students to be her kids. Upon her retirement in 1986, they were going to move to the coast, but she soon discovered she couldn’t leave. Buck told her: “I wondered when you would realize that.” “I could never leave Kaslo,” Aya says. “Kaslo is my family.” By that time, they were the only Nikkei left in town — only two other families stayed after the war. Aya has a younger brother in Nelson and an older sister in Japan. Despite the circumstances that brought her to Kaslo, she wouldn’t change what happened. “I was raised on ‘It can’t be helped. You make the best of what you get,’” she says. “I accepted what came. I couldn’t have a better life than I have here.” Above: Aya Higashi is seen at left in front of the old Giegerich store (now an art gallery) where she taught during the internment; and at top at the Popoff farm, ca. 1945, where she was once principal. Last year she unveiled a monument on the site commemorating the Japanese Canadian internment.

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JOHN HOPWOOD: The Gyro Club’s iron man

ohn Hopwood was just a teenager when he joined the Nelson Gyro Club. By the time he died, he was the longest serving member at over 64 years — eclipsing even his father’s 57 years. But it took much deliberation before he signed up. “Ken McCrory, who owned Nelson Electric, said to Bob Emory and me ‘The Gyro Club is a bunch of older men. Would you be willing to join and bring some of your friends?’” he recalled in an interview last year. “I thought about it a long time. Gradually we got enough younger guys.”

Much later he would become president, on the condition Emory serve as his vice-president. Although primarily a fraternal club, the Gyros have taken on many service projects over the years, including maintenance of their namesake park and canvassing for charities. Hopwood had roots in Nelson dating back over 100 years. His father Ernie came out from England as a boy to join an older brother and their father, who had butcher shops here and in Silverton. Ernie delivered meat to the mines by pack train, and later

drove the last horse-drawn wagon for the Nelson fire department. In the mid-1920s, he married Elizabeth Turner and began a long career as a Shell Oil agent. When John was a toddler, the family moved to Trail, where two more children, JoAnn and Shelagh, were born. Seven and a half years later, they returned to Nelson. In his youth, John spent a couple of summers with CP Telegraph as a groundsman and pole climber, earning $4.20 per 10-hour day, inspecting lines from Kaslo to Retallack and Castlegar to Midway. He stayed in sweltering boxcars, slept on hay-filled mattress covers, and washed up in tin basins filled with creek water. There was one saving grace: “We took our fishing rods. Oh, did we have some fishing.” After graduating from high school in 1946, Hopwood decided he didn’t care for the boxcar life and landed a job with BC Tel, which paid a bit better, and led to an apprenticeship as an installer/ lineman. Like his contemporary Doug Smith, profiled elsewhere in this booklet, he spent 38 years with the company. “When I started, guys would say: ‘Kid, you’re damn lucky. You stay there.’ It was one of the prime jobs.” In retirement, Hopwood became president of the Nelson Electric Tramway Society, and spent many hours weed whacking

along the track and occasionally driving the tram. As a kid, he rode the streetcar from his Fairview home — and also played pranks. “It was one of our sources of amusement,” he said. “We’d drive the poor conductor nuts.” At night he and friends would hide under the wooden sidewalk on Davies Street and try to shake the streetcar off its guidewires. Other times they took five-cent candy bags and filled them with potassium and sulfur from Smyth’s drug store. “It made boom powder. We put it in the bag, rolled it up nice and fine, and laid it on the tracks. Of course the streetcar would come along and there would be a great big boom.” To their further mischievous delight, the sulfur wafted up through the car. Decades later, as he took his own turn piloting the streetcar between the mall and Lakeside Park, Hopwood spotted a man “killing himself laughing. It was Louie, a kid I went to school with. He said ‘You’re getting your comeuppance, aren’t you?’” Hopwood passed away February 12 at 84. He is survived by wife Caroline, sons Steve and Keith, daughters Catherine and Lori, sister Shelagh, five grandchildren and one greatgrandson. Left: John Hopwood as a teenager, and last year. He was with the Gyro Club for 64 years.

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FRAN HORAN: Active body, active mind

racking jokes and serving cake at her birthday party in late 2011, Fran Horan seemed far younger than her 90 years. But then, she walked into town several times a week from Mountain Lake seniors community, explaining that an active body promotes an active mind. Her reaction to her milestone birthday? “It’s 100 per cent gratitude. It’s nothing that I did, it’s just lifestyle. When we grew up you darn well worked hard and ate properly. I can still remember cleaning the chicken house every Saturday. I dreaded and hated it, but you did it.” Born in Nelson in 1921, Horan was the youngest of seven children. Her paternal grandfather, J.J. Campbell, came to West Kootenay from Nova Scotia for the mining boom, but was “bitten by the orchard bug,” and planted fruit on vast tracts along the North Shore. It proved a big mistake. “The Okanagan had just been irrigated and the poor old Kootenay apples weren’t that great,” Horan said. “He really made a dead loss, but he was a very special, wonderful man.” Her father, Ian Colin Campbell, returned from World War I severely wounded and died when Fran was only four, leaving her mother Jean to raise the

him, and he didn’t even see me!” On Saturdays, she caught the SS Moyie to Kaslo and then took a bus home. After that lone year, she taught in Kelowna before enlisting in 1942 with the Royal Canadian Air Force. She served as an equipment assistant and aircraft parts factory worker at stations from coast to coast, giving her “a wonderful view of the whole of Canada.”

family at Willow Point in a cedar log house her father built. “There was one huge bedroom. I still remember our mother coming from bed to bed to bed to say goodnight,” she said. (The house no longer stands. Although her brother later added on to it, ultimately it fell into disrepair. A later owner invited her to take a final look before it was burned.) Horan attended Willow Point school, Nelson High School, and then Normal School to become a teacher. Her first posting was at Johnsons Landing, where she had seven students in Grades 1 to 9. “A wonderful guy over there had been madly in love with the teacher the year before me, but she was engaged and went to marry her boyfriend,” she recalled. “I fell madly in love with

After the war, she attended UBC for her bachelor of arts, then joined the air force reserve. At Summerside, PEI she met future husband Patrick (Paddy) Horan, a pipefitter putting in a curling rink at her station. They married in 1959 near Ajax, Ont., and their son was born the same year.

Feeling restless, Fran suggested they return to BC, a decision they never regretted. In Nelson, she resumed her teaching career at Central, Rosemont, and briefly, A.I. Collinson. “I loved that country atmosphere,” she says. “We did lots of exercise. These days young people, the only part of their body that gets any exercise is their thumbs and fingers.” The Horans also built the Willow Bay motel — a poorly chosen name, she says, because it caused endless confusion with the nearby Willow Point motel. Fran served on the school board, Selkirk College board, and for years was president of the local branch of the Canadian Cancer Society, where she earned a reputation as a relentless fundraiser. Paddy passed away in September 2011, after more than 50 years of marriage. Son Paddy Jr. and daughter Mary came from out of town to attend her party, while grandchildren and great grandchildren sent video greetings. Horan died on November 15 last year, the epitome of a life well lived. Top: Nelson’s Fran Horan was the life of her own 90th birthday party in late 2011. Bottom: Horan served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.

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JOE IRVING: Iron man

e graduated from high school at 93. He published his first book at 95. He’s the oldest member of Ironworkers Local 97. And last year Nelson’s Joe (Red) Irving turned 101. “Not many people make it to 100,” he chuckled in an interview. “A lot of people don’t make it to 90.” Not many people can boast involvement in as many major construction projects either — from the Lions Gate bridge to the Kootenay Canal — nor an elephant’s memory that stretches back to the start of the First World War. His trade took him all over BC, Alberta, the Yukon, and the US, and saw him build bridges, tunnels, dams, head frames, and power spans, usually as a foreman. “Ironwork is a funny thing for a person to follow,” he says. “Some guys follow it just to get a good cheque on a Friday night. I followed it because I wanted to be the best ironworker going.” Irving entered the world on October 10, 1911 at Thrums — the first baby born there. He was the sixth of nine children. His father, a carpenter, had trouble finding work, so the family moved to Trail, where a new zinc plant was being built. They bought property in East Trail and arrived just as labour icon Ginger Goodwin was leading

smelter workers in a strike. Irving was in the first class at the new school in East Trail. He later went to school in Blueberry, where his sister taught — they needed extra students to keep the school open. After finishing Grade 8, he went to Nelson to write his high school entrance exams, and passed with flying colours. That fall, he began high school in Trail, but within a few months, the family moved back to the country, and Irving’s formal education ended. He then did odd jobs for farmers, worked on the Nelson hydro plant expansion, and on

construction of the fertilizer plant at Warfield, where he began to learn boiler work. “I was getting experience at every branch of the trade and getting to be a key man on the crew ... I was thinking that I could go anywhere and hopefully get a job as an ironworker.” Irving joined the Ironworkers union in 1936, and worked steadily over the next 40 years, rarely turning down a job, except when there were multiple offers to choose from. “In the late ‘40s and ‘50s, one job just followed another. If you wanted to work, there was no shortage. Once I joined the

Dominion Bridge Co., I stayed with them year after year.” Irving worked on the Hugh Keenleyside dam, which was memorable for the wrong reason: it was the site of his closest call. A piece of lumber hit him on the head. It also hit another man in the side, who began to fall from the scaffold, but Irving caught him. Irving suffered no more than a sore neck, thanks to his shattered hard hat. Long after retirement, he decided to go back to school. In his early 90s, living on his ranch at Crescent Valley, he signed up for correspondence courses to finally get his high school diploma. He earned top marks and was honoured as a special guest at Mount Sentinel’s graduation ceremonies in 2005. He followed that by publishing his autobiography, Red Iron over the Canyon, which detailed his Kootenay upbringing and long career in ironwork. Sylvia, his wife of 45 years, says Joe’s easy-going demeanor may also be key to his longevity. “He never really worried about anything. At least never appeared to. He just took everything so easy.” Above: Joe Irving, age 25. Inset left: At 101, he still has a booming voice and a hearty laugh. Inset right: In 2005, he received an honourary life membership from the BC and Yukon Building and Construction Trades Council.

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ED & MARGARET JOHN: Making love last

n an age where reaching your 25th wedding anniversary is considered a rare feat, a Salmo couple give new meaning to the term long-term relationship. Ed and Margaret John marked 71 years together last spring. “It seems such a long time, but we didn’t really think about it until it got here,” Margaret says. With her English accent she might be mistaken for a war bride, but in fact her family immigrated to Canada from the Hampstead area of London in her youth. They settled first at Alberta before coming to South Slocan to join her mother’s sister. Her father got a job with West Kootenay Power, where one of his colleagues was a young electrician from Salmo. Ed and Margaret met playing badminton in the Bonnington hall. “He was a good badminton player,” Margaret recalls. Soon after, World War II began and Ed joined the army. He was stationed in Vancouver, but given a few days leave to come home to be married. He was 23; she was 19. They were wed on April 9, 1941 by Rev. Canon William J. Silverwood in Nelson at the Church of the Redeemer, which is now a home.

“We were married in the early morning and had a wedding breakfast at Grenfell’s Café — it’s the New China Restaurant now,” Margaret says. “We caught the train to Vancouver. I think it left about 10 o’clock. We didn’t get there until the next day about 10. It took 24 hours.” The new Hotel Vancouver

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had just been built, and the old one turned into an army barracks, where Ed stayed. He was later sent to Victoria and decided to join the navy. Margaret travelled with him to Hamilton, Halifax, and Newfoundland. Ed was chief petty officer on a corvette warship, which was on convoy duty on a triangle run between Newfoundland, Ireland, and New York. “The first few years of our lives, there was a lot of separation and anxiety when he was away at war,” Margaret says. “But after that, things went smoothly.” They returned to Salmo, where Ed’s parents lived, and opened a clothing store, which they ran for 25 years. (It’s now a flower shop.) Ed also started his own electrical contracting business. They built a house on Main Street across from the post office, where they still live, and had three children: Tom, who lives in Uxbridge, Ont.; Merilyn, now in North Vancouver; and Jennifer, of Salmo. They have eight grandchildren plus 12 great

grandchildren “and counting.” They celebrated their 70th anniversary at the Legion Hall in Salmo, a little ahead of the actual date so their great grandkids could come from Ontario during spring break. “That was very nice,” Margaret says. “There were a lot of people, and most of our family came, which has grown quite a lot. I started out as an only child. Now I’ve got all these relatives all over the place. I think I’ve done very well.” What’s astonishing, she says, is that both their best man and maid of honour —Wilfred Hearn and Winifred Rae — were on hand for the celebration. “The two people who were with us when we got married, our best friends, were still there,” Margaret says. Hearn — a longtime Salmo mayor — had a marriage with similar longevity. He and late wife Mary were together for nearly 69 years. What’s the secret to such a long marriage? “Not dying,” Ed deadpans. “We always sort of agreed,” Margaret says. “We had times where we didn’t agree but eventually we’d agree and get along. We seemed to manage all right.” Above: Salmo’s Ed and Margaret John at their wedding in Nelson in 1941, and with their grandchildren today. They’re in their eighth decade together.

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RAY JOHNSON: Surveying a life in Nelson

ay Johnson found his calling at 15. It was 1947 and Boyd Affleck was surveying the federal rifle range — now Perrier Road. The people who lived there, including Johnson’s family, were technically squatters, but were given the right to buy their land, or leave and receive compensation for their improvements. For two days, Johnson watched Affleck and his assistant, a boy not much older than himself. “This fellow says to me, ‘So you like the looks of this work? Well, you can have my job. Go ask him. He’s kind of a grumpy old guy.’“ Johnson vividly recalls Affleck looking him up and down: “Luckily, I was a skookum fella. I was training for shot put, skiing and playing hockey, and strong as all heck.” They spent the summer laying out 64 parcels and Johnson was tasked with determining how much land each owner should have and generally keeping everyone happy. “So there I was designing the subdivision. I was just a kid but had the confidence of my boss, who said ‘You seem to know all the people here.’ Of course I’d been living there for 12 years.” His family arrived

in 1934 from Shaunavon, Sask. in a covered wagon known as a Bennett buggy — acerbically named for Prime Minister R.B. Bennett. People and animals were starving on the Prairies, and Ray’s parents, upon being offered use of two horses by a man headed for BC, decided it wasn’t worth trying to survive another winter. They set out for the Okanagan. The trip took a month and they only had $8. Ray’s mother Fay — alive today at 96 — sold her sewing machine to buy flour. When they reached West Kootenay, Ray’s father first found a job at a Retallack mine before moving to Nelson. He spent 35 years at Stevenson’s machine shop, while Ray’s mother worked as a diesel wiper, cleaning locomotives in the CPR maintenance shop.

ay returned to work for Boyd Affleck the next eight summers. He put in long hours and paid his own way through the University of BC, where he studied civil engineering. He was also class president and social convener for the school’s entire grad class. “University was a lot of fun,” he says. “I never had anything to do with hanging Volkswagens off bridges, but I was in charge of stealing the bell from Royal Roads College.” Between third and fourth year, Ray married Rose Picard, whom he met while surveying mineral claims at Sheep Creek, where her mother fed the crews. After graduating, he went back to work for Affleck again, but was laid off when his employer got pneumonia. The next day he was hired as layout engineer for the new Nelson bridge. Johnson wrote a thesis about his work on the bridge to secure his

professional engineer’s registration, but lent his only copy to someone and never got it back. In 1958, he earned his surveyor’s commission. Holding both consulting engineer’s and BC land surveyor’s qualifications is unusual — except in Nelson, where he’s one of several with that distinction. Asked whether he considers himself more a surveyor or an engineer, Johnson replies that he is primarily a planner. “Those two professional registrations back up being qualified to plan,” he says. Major projects on his resume include Kokanee Springs, Fairmont Hot Springs resort, and the most reliable control survey of Nelson. But he’s most proud of the impact he had on the Nelson waterfront. He helped build the airport runway, arranged the sale of property to the school district for their operations yard, and brokered the deal that resulted in the Chahko Mika Mall being built where it is. Now 81, Johnson is finally wrapping up his practices — something he didn’t even consider at 65. Even when Nelson suffered economic downturns, he was always busy: “I was just nicely able to handle whatever was developing. It was a great time to be around.” Left: Ray Johnson began his surveying apprenticeship at age 15 with Boyd Affleck. At 81, he’s finally wrapping up his practices.

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LYDIA KANIA: 4,000 miles to paradise

ydia Kania got a taste of the way others see her while attending a funeral. A relative of the deceased, upon being introduced, said: “Oh, you’re the mayor of Passmore!” “That’s what they called me behind my back,” she laughs. “I’m a bossy kind of person.” Someone else told her: “Lydia, the trouble with you is you want everything done yesterday.” But, she says, “That’s the only way to get anything done: push.” Kania, 87, was a driving force behind the Passmore seniors lodge in the 1990s. When it looked like a kitchen would be dropped from the project for lack of funding, she led a nine-day 236 km Hike for Housing that raised $33,000. Kania was by then used to long walks. Paralyzed with polio at 30, she recovered but was left with a bad back. A doctor recommended walking, so she took it up, her back improved, and a friend later suggested she enter the BC Senior Games. In her first year, 1993, she came home with a gold and silver. She’s participated almost every year since, and once set a record in her age category for the 10 km. Last year, she laments, she had a bad foot and only earned silver in the 5 km.

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came to Canada with her parents as a small child and settled on a homestead near Warburg, Alta., southwest of Edmonton, lured by the promise of 160 acres of farm land. Her family spoke Hungarian and German, but no English; the local school teacher taught it to parents as well as children. (Which resulted in her name being Anglicized to Lydia Sommer.) “Then when Dad could read English, he had me bring him books from school,” Kania says. “He read all the books in that library.” There was little prejudice in the community, as Hungarian families far outnumbered the Anglos, but something went wrong when they applied for naturalization. “The very first year my Dad gave this Englishman money to get our papers. And he never did. Then the war came along and we’re in trouble. We were of German descent.” In the government’s eyes, they were enemy aliens. Her father’s hunting rifle was seized, and they were fingerprinted and required to report monthly to the RCMP. But for Lydia the real hassle came after she married Ed Kania, an American, in 1943. While Ed went overseas with the military she tried to navigate the red tape required to let her move to the United States.

It took three years, and Ed beat her home, but finally they began raising a family on an acreage near Poland, New York. But Ed told her: “Someday, when our children don’t need us anymore, we’ll move into

a cabin in the mountains of British Columbia.” In 1961, they set out on an Alaska holiday with their five kids, and en route, visited Lydia’s uncle in Nelson. “Well! This was where we wanted to live,” she says. “We bought property [at Vallican] and did not wait till the kids grew up.” Returning home, they began planning to move to BC — much to the dismay of their friends, who admonished them: “You can’t take these children into the wilderness. Leave them here if you want to move up there.” “But you know,” Kania says, “it was the best move we ever made.”

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Last year Lydia and Ed, 93, celebrated 50 years in the Slocan. Their neighbours, Patrick Squires and Linda Smith, who live in their old house, threw them a party with a cake that read: “4,000 miles to paradise: From Poland, New York to Vallican, BC.” Above, from top: Lydia Kania is as busy as ever today; The Kania family at Lake Superior, en route from New York to BC, 1960s; The Kania homestead at Vallican, 1962.

PAT KELLOGG: A visit to grandma’s house

atricia Kellogg celebrated her 80th birthday last year by returning to her birthplace. “We were in town shopping and my daughter said ‘Mom, I want to get a picture of you in front of your grandmother’s house.’ I said oh, I’d love it. We went up to take the picture and she walked in!” There, in the front room of 112 Vernon Street in Nelson — now the How Shang Shway teahouse — was her family, including a brother and sister, gathered for a surprise party. Owners Pao Yu Lee and Ming Chin Liu had prepared

a luncheon and their daughter played Happy Birthday and other songs on the Chinese zither. They also gave Kellogg a tour, although aside from the staircase and fireplace, she didn’t recognize much. Still, “my grandmother’s aura was overwhelming.” Her grandmother, Dora Hordal Kellogg, bought the house in 1931, after several years of renting it with husband Albert. Their son Francis (Kelly) and his wife Eileen also moved in, and the following year Pat, the second eldest of four, was born to the couple in an upstairs bedroom — she’s the only one of her siblings born in the house.

Pat moved to Trail with her family when she was 11 or 12, but later returned to Nelson to stay with her grandmother, who built her a basement suite. “She was an incredible lady,” Pat says. “She was head of the family. My grandfather said she was the most beautiful woman in Nelson. He worshipped her.” Albert was a driver for West Transfer, while Dora ran a boarding house, managed the Ymir Hotel’s dining room, and was a strong influence on her granddaughter, for whom she provided tailor-made clothes as well as dance, voice, and piano lessons. (Dora asked Amy Ferguson, conductor of the Nelson boys choir, to take Pat on as a student. Ferguson said she was too busy, but quickly reconsidered when she heard Pat sing.) Pat attended St. Joseph’s school — receiving special permission at 14 to convert to Catholicism — and sang every Sunday at both the Mary Immaculate Cathedral and United Church. She was often soloist at weddings, funerals, and other special occasions. She attended Nelson Business College and spent a year as a secretary for a local judge before she married and moved to Hall Siding, then Ymir, where she raised four children. At 45, she went back to work as secretary to Notre Dame University president Cecil Kaller — a job she applied for only after

her daughter dared her. When the university closed, she worked for the Catholic Diocese, then became secretary to the president of David Thompson University Centre. Out of a job again when DTUC closed, she moved to Victoria, Vancouver, and Kelowna, and held various positions with law firms and government agencies. In February of last year, she returned to the Kootenay to find peace in Salmo. Her grandmother’s house, meanwhile, stayed in the family, and at various times her aunts Florence, Hazel, and Stella lived there with their husbands. When Pat’s grandmother died, the will stipulated it remain an apartment house, with her grandfather assured a free suite. Ownership finally fell to Stella, the last surviving sibling, who sold it in 1989 and moved to Victoria. It has changed hands several times since, most recently in 2007, and became a teahouse in 2011. Pat says returning after so long to what the family still calls The House was a lovely way to celebrate her birthday: “I’ve never been so overwhelmed. I just loved that place.” Far left: Pat Kellogg in front of her birthplace at 112 Vernon Street in Nelson — now the How Shang Shway teahouse. Inset: Nelson, June 1944: Pat, Dorothy, mother Eileen, Ted, Clifford, and father Francis (Kelly) Kellogg outside the same house.

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FRITZ KOEHLE: Skating in a golden era

or much of the 1950s and ‘60s, whenever the Nelson Maple Leafs took a penalty, you could count on brothers Fritz and Red Kohele to kill it. They were masters of exploiting the Civic Centre’s small ice with the four-man box. If an opposing player had the puck on the boards, they let him wait there as long as he wanted. “I remember fans saying ‘Get him, get him, get him!’ and you’d just be standing there, because he didn’t know where to pass,” Fritz recalls. One year, they scored more goals a man short than they allowed. There was even a rumour the NHL sent a scout to watch. Fritz and Red were usually on the same line, and often had another brother, Gerry, in goal. All were born in Regina but came west after their father, a sheet metal worker, got a job roofing Blaylock mansion and then landed work at the Trail smelter. The four Koehle boys (pronounced KAY-lee) grew up in East Trail, skated on an outdoor rink at nearby Butler Park and played minor hockey in the old arena. Their father made their hockey pants, sharpened their skates, and spliced together broken sticks. Called Frederick after his dad,

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Nelson because Gerry was having health problems. Fritz also played a year of junior in Wetaskiwin, but residency rules prevented him from appearing in the

dubbed Brown Bear after wearing a furry cap and jacket to school one day. Only Gerry went by his given name. In 1944, Fritz was the mascot (read stick boy) of the Trail junior team that made it to the Memorial Cup final. However, lack of funds meant he wouldn’t be able to go east with them. In a move that still touches him, the players collected money to pay his way. Fritz later went to Nanaimo to work and play junior hockey himself. By the time he came home, his family had moved to

playoffs. Returning to Nelson, he became a senior hockey mainstay, skating with Don Appleton, Fred Hergerts, Wendy Keller, Bill Haldane and Gordie Howe’s brother Vic. His greatest personal night was in 1960, when he scored five goals in a 12-1 rout of the powerhouse Trail Smoke Eaters. A year later, he was named the Western International Hockey League’s most valuable player. His favourite Leafs team, however, was the one of 1953-54, coached by Willie Schmidt, which lost an infamous eight-game

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series to Penticton. Nelson was up three games to one, with one tie, and needed only another tie to win — but instead lost three straight. Fans claimed the referees had been bought. “We could have won just as easy as lost,” he says. “That was, I think, the year I loved best.” It was also the league’s heyday, when fans would camp out for playoff tickets, rinks were packed beyond capacity, and players couldn’t walk down the street without someone calling their name. After retiring to focus on the plumbing and heating business he and his father started, Koehle agreed to coach Nelson’s junior team. In his first year, 1967-68, they were undefeated and won the city’s only Cyclone Taylor Cup as provincial Junior B champions. Kohele, 83, spent several more years behind the bench, but never repeated that early success. “Win or lose, we still enjoyed it,” he says. Above: Fritz Koehle played with the Wetaskiwin juniors in the 1940s; Koehle in a 1958 Nelson Daily News clipping. He was a top penalty killer.

RAY KOSIANCIC: A passion for wheels

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automobiles, from school buses to milk trucks, farm equipment to classic cars — as often as not rescuing them from oblivion. “I have about a dozen, but some don’t count,” he says. “They need to be restored. I’ve got models I really like but I’m not going to do it. Takes a lot of time, and at this stage I just enjoy driving them.” (His favourite is a yellow 1972 GM Screaming Jimmy that has Slocan Motor Freight decaled on the side.) Kosiancic has restored all three of his

father’s trucks, beginning with a 1927 Chev one-ton used on the family farm, which he and his siblings learned to drive on. “It was a workhorse for years, up until 1950 when Dad bought a new GMC ton and a half. We used that truck for delivering wood and sawdust when the sawmill was running.” Long abandoned in the field by the time Kosiancic set to work, “it was in terrible shape,” with the old wooden cab falling off. “So I started out from a frame and restored the wheels, put a steam engine in it, built a body for it, and spent a good three years just working on that little truck. It’s become quite famous, especially with the steam clubs.” He also has the 1950 GMC plus a 1937 three-ton that were in equally bad shape, but have since been returned to their original glory. Some of Kosiancic’s vintage cars have been in movies: he rented them out for Snow Falling on Cedars — although once covered with fake snow, they were unrecognizable. An all-day shoot aboard the old MV Anscomb resulted in a one-second scene. His vehicles and farm are shown to much better advantage in the L.V. Rogers production The Change Agents. Kosiancic turned down a speaking part — he appears in the background “here and there” — but the farm was one of the primary sets. “Old vehicles, plus everything from the house to the shop to the

garden, to views of the land. They did a lot of shooting out here.” Kosiancic, 79, still owns 15 acres of the original 400-acre family property his grandfather acquired more than a century ago. He grew up helping his uncle Jack on the farm, and then bought it when he was 24, after much haggling with the bank. “I finally got a down payment and went from there. It was so hard because there wasn’t much income and I didn’t really know what to do. I tried a little of everything from pigs to chickens to some root crop.” But what really paid the bills was milk. He and late wife Ida ran Raida’s Dairy (a combination of their first names) and delivered raw milk from Slocan Park to Corra Linn until tightened regulations forced them to quit in the early 1970s. Kosiancic then spent 25 years as a popular school bus driver — and after retirement, bought his own bus, “just for the hell of it.” His family photos are featured throughout Rita Moir’s book, The Third Crop, whose title he helped inspire. Left, from top: Ray Kosiancic’s farm overlooks the Slocan River at Crescent Valley. He still owns 15 acres of the original property, which his grandfather bought over 100 years ago; The Kosiancic farm, ca. 1942; Ray, age 14. He’d already bought his first vehicle; Ray’s first driver’s license, 1948; Kosiancic spent 25 years as a popular school bus driver.

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EV KUHN: Built to win at the Civic

he Civic Centre didn’t have seats yet, but for the crowd that turned out to its opening celebration, that hardly mattered. If you could skate in November 1935, there was only one place to be. For 12-year-old Everett Kuhn, ice rinks weren’t exciting in and of themselves. A recent transplant from Claresholm, Alta., he’d practically grown up skating and playing hockey at that town’s rink. But Kuhn, now 90, can still remember the excitement that day, and how Nelson’s new rink reinvented hockey in the Queen City. “At 12 I could skate faster backwards than most of these kids could forwards because I was raised on ice,” he says. The opening of the Civic Centre benefitted not only the senior Maple Leafs but teams of local youth stationed in clubhouses around the city. Kuhn’s team was the Panthers, run by Nelson mayor Norman Stibbs. “I played for him for years,” says Kuhn. “He’d buy your skating ticket and your skates if you needed them. He picked up a bunch of us kids and we always had a good team.” With a clubhouse on Vernon Street, the Panthers bypassed the Civic’s dressing rooms, showing up only needing to tie their skates. By 1939, Kuhn was playing for the Nelson minor Maple Leafs, who secured their place in the

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city’s hockey history that season by winning the BC Juvenile Hockey Championships. As is often the case in the region’s hockey history, the battle began in Trail. The two teams were tied with one game left in the threegame series, and Trail had home ice. “I can remember S.G. Blaylock, president of the CM&S [Cominco], came into our dressing room and said, ‘are you going to beat the other boys tonight?’” The team cheered its affirmative. “So he says, ‘well, if you beat Trail, the trip to Kimberley is on CM&S.’” When it came time for the next playoff series in Kimberley, staff from the Trail smelter drove the team part of the way in company cars. Buoyed by their success against their local rivals, the young all stars claimed another set of victories and moved on to the championship against the Vernon Hydrophones. But Vernon had a weapon of their own: a teenage right-winger named Larry Kwong, who later played for the Trail Smoke Eaters and became the first ChineseCanadian in the NHL. “He could shift you right out of your skates,” remembers Kuhn. “He came down and flew by me for two unassisted goals. He was so quick.”

But Maple Leafs coach Walter Wait — who founded his own Nelson institution, Wait’s News — had a plan. “[He] called me over and said, ‘I was watching, and when he shifts, you move and he goes on through. Next time don’t move.’ So the next time he came down I just lowered my shoulder and stood still and they came out and packed him off the ice. He never came back over the blue line after that.” The Maple Leafs went on to win the series, and the provincial title, in two games. Though Kuhn considers the 1940 championship his crowning hockey achievement — lacrosse would become his sport of choice

a few years later, taking him to the Lower Mainland for a few seasons — it wasn’t the end of his involvement with the Civic Centre. After serving in World War II, he joined Nelson’s short-lived Legion hockey team. And when his sons Norm and Ken took up minor hockey, Kuhn found himself back on the Civic’s ice coaching a team that contained another major figure in Nelson hockey history: a young Mike Laughton, the city’s first player to make it to the NHL. Above: Now 90, Everett Kuhn was on the 1939-40 Maple Leafs team that won the BC juvenile hockey championship.

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WALT LAURIE: Life on the right tracks

alt Laurie spent over 40 years with the Canadian Pacific Railway, but never got to drive a train. Piloting Nelson’s Streetcar 23 was the next best thing. Laurie went to work for the CPR in his native Cranbrook after being discharged from the army during World War II. He would have been a trainman, but couldn’t pass the medical exam. So instead, he unloaded boxcars. After working his way up to station agent in Fernie, he transferred to sales in Kelowna, and then Vancouver. But big city life didn’t suit him. When Laurie’s boss asked in 1968 if he’d like to be considered for district manager of marketing and sales for the Kootenays, he replied that he was determined to get the job. “I explained I grew up in the Kootenays and knew most of the people in the industry. Trying to build myself up, I told him ‘I’m the only man who can do the job you want in the Kootenays, because I know it so well.’ I really went at it pretty strong.” Laurie had fond memories

of Nelson, where the position was based: he spent a summer here with his uncle and aunt when he was 14 or 15. Back then, Nelson had a larger population than Cranbrook and many more amenities. “I thought I was in heaven. [There was a] five-and-ten Woolworth’s store. As a kid, that was a supermarket. The Capitol Theatre was so beautiful. Then you had the Civic Centre with artificial ice, a gymnasium, and a field where they played

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baseball and lacrosse — everything a young teenager could want. We didn’t have that in Cranbrook.” For a nickel, he could ride the streetcar downtown from Fairview. If he walked, he could pick cherries off trees hanging over the sidewalk on High Street. Furthermore, his relatives lived only a block from Lakeside Park, “and to have a beach like that was wonderful. Kids here didn’t realize what they had.” One day, Laurie marvelled as a passenger train pulled up beside the park and hundreds of people spilled out: it was the Cominco picnic, the one day of the year when Trail smelter workers and their families frolicked at the company’s expense. Having convinced his boss he was right for the job, Laurie arrived in Nelson to find little had changed — except the Capitol Theatre was closed and the streetcar no longer ran. His task was to keep the CPR’s industrial clients happy, which he generally did until retiring in 1983. Fourteen years ago, neighbour Archie McKen suggested Laurie become involved with the streetcar society, which

had put the old tram back on track. Within a year, he was president. Since then he has filled all the roles, including driver. “It’s a great feeling to operate it,” he says. “The big thing is the people you meet and work with. It’s a great bunch of guys and gals.” Keeping the streetcar going isn’t easy — meeting safety standards and replacing rails and ties has taxed the volunteer group — but Laurie says his former employer has been extremely generous with materials and labour. At 90, Laurie remains active with the streetcar, lately as its historian. “It’s my second love,” he says. “My wife is my first love and the streetcar is my second.” He and Effie have been married nearly 68 years and have five children, seven grandchildren, and six great grandchildren. They always planned to retire to Kelowna, but when the time came, “we looked at the value of Kelowna versus Nelson. Kelowna was a big city. Nelson was a beautiful town. We stayed here.” Left: After a long career with the CPR, Walt Laurie got involved with Nelson’s streetcar society. He’s been known to give a rousing rendition of I’ve Been Working on the Railroad.

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BERT LEARMONTH: Model builder extraordinaire

ert Learmonth, who died in 2011 at 86, was a meticulous model builder who created astonishingly detailed replicas of Kootenay Lake sternwheelers and other lost forms of local transportation. Combining his love of historic boats with his woodworking talents, he rebuilt the lake’s entire fleet in miniature, as well as scale versions of local ferries, buses, and streetcars. The results were displayed at his home as well as in local museums, and complemented an exhibition of Alec Garner sternwheeler paintings at Touchstones Nelson. “The level of detail and how real they look is incredible,” says retired Nelson archivist and museum curator Shawn Lamb. “Inside those sternwheelers was just as beautiful as outside.” On one occasion, Learmonth photographed a patch of rug similar to one found in a lady’s salon aboard one of the boats, and pasted it on his model’s floor. “And the staircases and bannisters and posts,” Lamb says. “Dishes on the table. Shelving with things in it. Flags. Everything meticulously researched and beautifully done. Just amazing.” Learmonth worked from plans supplied by friend Bill Curran, whose father ran the Nelson shipyard. If

those were unavailable, he relied on photographs and his own knowledge. “He had been on a lot of the boats himself and knew them well,” Lamb says. “He could judge whether it looked right.” When another model builder created a replica SS Moyie, “Bert was very critical because he said it wasn’t right. He said you can’t just do it from a book. You have to have the right feel.” In a 1998 interview, he recalled his fascination with the sternwheelers of his youth: “The sound of the steam engines in the boats was one of a kind,” he said.

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“There was a little swish from the paddlewheel too. It’s special, something I’ll never forget.” Learmonth was born at Willow Point in 1924, the eldest of three children of John and Alice Learmonth. His grandfather worked on the lake boats, while his father had a series of local bus lines, which he sold in 1929 to a company that later became Greyhound Canada. (Unhappy with a book on Greyhound’s beginnings that gave this area short shrift, Bert wrote his own history of Kootenay bus transportation.) Bert served in the navy during

World War II, then worked as a heavy machinery contractor and carpenter before joining the school district as a maintenance man and bus driver. Woodwork was long his hobby — as a child he whittled boats out of bark — but it wasn’t until a few years before his retirement that he built his first model using wood from a large weeping willow felled on his property. It had just the right combination of strength, weight, pliability, and texture. He supplemented it with all sorts of recycled and scavenged parts. Learmonth reproduced every major vessel on Kootenay Lake and also built models of his father’s bus fleet, a horse-drawn coal wagon, Nelson’s streetcars, and the Cottonwood Falls power plant, among others. Although he received some commissions — including one of the SS Moyie that was presented to Nelson’s sister city of Shuzenji, Japan — the bulk of his prodigious output was done for no pay and was proudly exhibited in a private museum adjacent to his longtime Willow Point home. “The guest book is just incredible,” his son Vic says. “Lots of people from all over the world came here.” Learmonth is survived by Mary, his wife of over 60 years, who painted backdrops for his models. Left: Model builder Bert Learmonth was known for the incredible detail on his sternwheelers.

TOM LYMBERY: Gray Creek store a family legacy

ne hundred years ago this spring, Arthur Lymbery was persuaded to open a small store at Gray Creek, then an isolated East Shore outpost with thrice weekly sternwheeler service. Later, it became the busy terminus of the Kootenay Lake ferry, and he added a post office, gas pump, and auto camp. Those things are gone, but the business remains in the family, now a two-story emporium that claims to be the “Woodstove and Fireplace Capital of the Kootenays” and “The Most Interesting Store You’ve Ever Seen.” The slogans are from the clever mind of Arthur’s son Tom, employed in the store since boyhood, and now its proprietor emeritus. While Arthur sold anything anybody needed — a billiard table and sun dial were two more unusual items in the 1920s — Tom took things much further, adding an insurance agency, woodstoves, and chainsaws. “I needed a chainsaw, but when it came in, it sold before I got to use it,” he says. “A local man asked ‘What do you do after you’ve sold everybody one?’ We still haven’t got to that point.” (When ICBC’s Autoplan insisted on street addresses instead of box numbers, the store’s cul-de-sac was christened Chainsaw Avenue, described in a travel guide as a “once-in-a-

lifetime address.”) A new, much bigger store opened next to the old one in 1979, complete with grocery, hardware, and clothing departments. With an inventory of 20,000 items, the store’s brochure boldly proclaims: “If we don’t have it, you don’t need it.” Lymbery’s marketing genius has since extended to the community at large. He coined the term Best Shore, and when BC towns were encouraged to erect berms for Expo 86, he created some unusual welcome signs. “We didn’t qualify for any grants, but I thought here’s a good time to put up a sign,” he says. “I made them with a chainsaw. You can rout a lot quicker with a chainsaw than a router.” The signs declared Gray Creek a metric-free zone — due in part to mix-ups between imperial and metric measurements that caused headaches when building the new store — and touted the community as home to a huge gold boulder supposedly lost in Kootenay Lake. Lymbery became part of the story when two wouldbe treasure hunters arrived in the late 1960s in hot pursuit. They left empty-

“TOM’S GRAY CREEK, a Kootenay Lake Memoir” written by Tom Lymbery, will be published in the summer of 2013. Growing up as the son of a general storekeeper at the Gray Creek sternwheeler ferry landing gave Tom a lifetime of memories to share, for this book is much more than a family and general store story. Tom’s articles on BC and Kootenay Lake history have been published in newspapers and magazines for well over 20 years. He relates amusing stories that help the reader remember events and the fascinating characters who settled this area of B.C. Readers of Tom’s articles have been asking for years “when are you writing your book” so at last it is

handed, but he still has a sign with the company logo. A voracious reader — he usually has three books on the go — Lymbery ensures the store is well stocked, especially with local history titles. “If I wanted a book, it was just as easy to buy several and sell the rest,” he says. A lifelong resident, save for a few years of high school in Vancouver, he’s often asked about Gray Creek’s past, and usually has the answers. He’s a past vice-president of the BC Historical Federation, has been president of the Gray Creek Historical Society

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since its inception, and leads tours of local historic sites each summer. He and wife Sharon spend several months each year in Mexico, and on his current trip he’s completing a book tentatively titled Tom’s Gray Creek – A Kootenay Lake Memoir slated to be published this year. (It’s based on his monthly column in the East Shore Mainstreet, for which he also writes Tom Sez, a list of quotidian observations.) Lymbery, 84, sold his insurance business but never really retired. He stops by the store every day, although his son and others are now in charge. His grandchildren have become the fourth generation to work there. As its centennial nears, the store is planning a celebration — and undergoing further expansion. Left, from top: Allan Tookey (left) with Kathleen, Arthur, and Tom Lymbery at Gray Creek auto camp office, 1952. (Tom and Sharon Lymbery collection/Gray Creek Historical Society); Tom’s father Arthur created this early 1930s postcard showing the store and SS Nasookin (Tom and Sharon Lymbery collection); Tom Lymbery receives a haircut from mother Kathleen at camp kitchen door, summer 1952. (Tom and Sharon Lymbery collection/Gray Creek Historical Society)

CAM MAH: Digging up unexpected roots

rriving in Canada in 1959 from China at age 12, Cameron Mah had no idea of his Nelson roots. Then known as Mah Kin Shum, his parents sent him to seek opportunity and a better life. They simply told him to find someone who spoke Chinese and ask for help. It worked. “I came into Vancouver and this couple from the St. James Hotel said we know somebody from Kelowna who will take you in,” he recalls. “In Kelowna, they said we’ve got a nephew who opened a restaurant in Castlegar. He’s going to take you, and you can go to school and work.”

That restaurant proprietor was Yorkie Mah (no relation) of the Marlane Grill, who taught Cam his culinary skills. After a couple of years at school, he went to work there full-time. When he was 18, his landlady asked: “You’re getting married pretty soon?” “I said ‘No, I’ve got no money.’ She said ‘I’ll lend you some.’ She was just joking at first.’” But before he knew it, the wedding had been arranged. His bride was Jayne Jay, who came here from Hoi Ping in 1954, joining her father after six years apart. In 1967, with the first of four children on the way, Cam

and Jayne moved to Nelson. Here, oldtimers told him they remembered his forebears. It was news to him: it turned out his great grandfather, Lung Mah, came to Nelson early in the century, attracted by the mining rush. He was a scribe, who wrote letters home for illiterate immigrants. He left a few children behind in China, one of whom, Fong, followed him here and worked as an elevator operator at the Hume Hotel. The two also ran a laundry in Silverton. Fong later returned to Tin Sum in Canton province, where he built a beautiful home. He was also head of the Chinese Nationalist League in BC, and through that organization met a man who asked him to be his daughter’s godfather. Fong accepted — over the objections of his superstitious wife, who told him “You should never be a godfather, because you’ll die young.” Unfortunately, the prediction came true: in 1943, while only 35, Fong died following an operation in Vancouver for liver cancer. Years later, Cam discovered Fong’s goddaughter was Faye Leung, who played a key role in former Premier Bill Vander Zalm’s downfall. She gave Cam a picture of his grandfather. Cam’s great grandfather, meanwhile, continued to live in Nelson until he died in 1957 — so by the time Cam arrived, he had no family left here. His reputation preceded him,

however, and several restaurants offered him work. He cooked at Ken’s Cafe (which later became the Redfish Grill), and also bought the Stirling Hotel, which Jayne ran almost single-handedly. In 1970, Cam and five partners considered starting their own restaurant. When word got out, he was fired from Ken’s Cafe, forcing his hand. The KC Restaurant, established in a former men’s wear store, was a success from the first. (KC stood for Kootenay Centre, inspired by a passing Kootenay Cleaning Centre truck). It’s now Nelson’s oldest restaurant by the same name in the same place (Itza’s, formerly the Medi, opened a few months earlier). A few years later, Cam brought his parents and siblings to Canada. He’s never gone back to China, although some of his children have. He’s now retired — brother Russell runs the KC — but the awning still says Cam’s Restaurant. It wasn’t his idea: “Rick Collin, the guy who built the canopy, said ‘I’m going to put your name on it.’ I said ‘Nah, don’t.’ He said, ‘I already did.’” Left: Nelson’s Cameron Mah, former proprietor of the KC Restaurant, was born Mah Kin Shum in Tin Sum, Canton, China in 1946. Before coming to Canada in 1959, Mah studied English for a year at a Pool Sun College.

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r. Kenneth Morrow, who died last year at 83, turned his hardscrabble memories of growing up in Nelson in the 1930s into a local bestseller. Morrow was a well-regarded ophthalmologist who practiced for decades in Ashland, Wisc. and Bellingham, Wash. before becoming an author in semiretirement. His first book, A Boyhood in Nelson, was published in 2003. Morrow said it was inspired by his grandsons, who never tired of hearing about the pranks he and his brothers pulled as kids. “Their appetite for stories led me to think about my family’s life in Nelson during the Great Depression,” he wrote in the foreword. “And so in other words, this book began with some dirty trick stories, and then turned into the tale of my childhood.” Born in Trail as the youngest of four children, Morrow never knew his father, who died shortly after his birth. A few years later, his strong-willed but fun-loving mother moved the family to Nelson, where they had a modest house on Latimer Street. The Great Northern Railway’s station was two blocks up, and Morrow and his siblings loved to help unload the baggage car — especially Friday nights when it contained gold bars — and to hike along the tracks into the mountains, where lakes, streams, and old mines beckoned.

“Our biggest fear was being trapped on Second Bridge, the longest and highest bridge, where an oncoming train could catch us by surprise,” he wrote. (Eventually they lost that fear, with near tragic results.) The family grew a garden, raised chickens, and the boys spent up to three hours a day

found the time and energy for play. In winter they skated on a backyard rink and sledded down the city streets. In summer, they swam in Kootenay Lake and played simple games. Morrow paints a vivid, honest picture of Nelson in the Depression, including the prejudices of the era — “some of

selling newspapers. They also scrounged the alleys for anything they could use or sell. “Life was a never-ending struggle until the start of World War II,” Morrow wrote. “But economic hardship doesn’t affect young children the way it does adults. We children knew we were poor, but never thought we were failures.” Busy as they were, they always

it racial, some religious, and a lot of it just plain personal.” Poverty was also rampant. The city was full of destitute men who literally arrived on boxcars and often knocked on their door seeking meals — which were always provided, though the family could hardly afford to do so. (Only years later did Morrow realize how the hobos knew his home was a good place for a

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handout: a rock balanced on a cedar fencepost was the sign.) Morrow’s account of tasting his first chocolate bar at age 11 — eating it agonizingly slow to make it last over an hour — is particularly affecting. The first edition of A Boyhood in Nelson quickly sold out, necessitating two reprintings. All proceeds went to the Nelson museum. Other books followed: Leaving Nelson: Beyond Toad Mountain traced Morrow’s training at UBC and long career in medicine. Ladies of Easy Virtue in the West Kootenay looked at the history of local prostitution, inspired by his boyhood experiences delivering newspapers to Nelson’s Lake Street brothels. His final work, The Doukhobor People: A Tribute to Good Citizens, was launched in 2010 at a breakfast attended by many old Nelson chums. Morrow died May 25 in Seattle. His wife Dorothy, to whom he was married 60 years, came to Nelson last summer with their three children to sprinkle half his ashes from the Great Northern’s Second Bridge. Above: Ken Morrow wrote several books about West Kootenay, including two autobiographies. Inset: Morrow family, 1944, just before Bob went overseas. Front: Marge, Margaret. Back: Ken, Bob, Tiny. From A Boyhood in Nelson.

EVELYN MURRAY: Memories of a Ymir May Queen

velyn Murray is possibly the only person left born in the old Ymir hospital. There can’t be many others: the building was erected in late 1903 by the local miners’ union and burned down in 1930. “I don’t think there’s anybody else,” she says. “I might be the only one.” Her father, Edward Emilson, came from Sweden and mined in the Lardeau before arriving in Ymir. In 1919, he married Sarah Rankin — a widow with five children. “I thought he was very brave,” Murray says. After Sarah’s first husband Dan was killed in a mining accident at Hedley a few years earlier, she and her kids moved back to Ymir to be with extended family. (Sarah’s parents, William and Mary Stewart, are buried in the Ymir cemetery. Stewart Creek is named after them.) Evelyn, Ed and Sarah’s only surviving child, was born in 1922. She has no memory of the old hospital at the north end of town, now a vacant lot, but does recall growing up in Ymir, when it was still an active mining town. Her father and uncle Sonny Burgess participated in doublejacking competitions, where one man held and turned a drill steel while the other pounded it with a sledge hammer — rapid fire. For a time, her mother cooked at the Ymir Hotel, the only survivor of the four or five operating back then.

“I know that hotel quite well,” she says. “We used to play there, running in and out of rooms when nobody was there.” A trip to Nelson by passenger train was a rarity. Following her first memorable visit as a young child, “I came back and told everybody I bounced on the rubber sidewalks and ate in the eating store.” Evelyn went to school in Ymir until Grade 10. At 17, she was Ymir’s May Queen — a title she earned by selling the most raffle tickets. First prize was a silver tea service. “I think my would-be husband

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bought most of them,” she laughs. That was George Murray, a Vancouver native who trained as a baker, but didn’t care much for it, and instead went into mining, first in the Bridge River district and then Ymir. The couple married in 1941 and moved to Vancouver a few years later. George was called up for war, but rejected by the army because he had flat feet and contracted rheumatic fever as a child. While working as a shipyard welder, he also suffered acute appendicitis. “He had an operation and the

doctor wouldn’t let him go back to work, so we moved back to Ymir,” Evelyn says. George worked at the Canex and HB mines and was later secretary of the Chamber of Mines in Nelson. He was also the first regional district director for rural Salmo and unofficial mayor of Ymir. The couple had five children — one of whom, Lorraine, followed in her mother’s footsteps as Ymir May Queen of 1957. “Ymir was a good place to grow up,” Lorraine says. “We knew every bush and twig and rock and stump. Even as teenagers it was a good place. Parents didn’t worry about kids when they were gone for the day. We always showed up in time for meals.” George died in 1995. Evelyn now lives in Salmo. All her kids are still in West Kootenay. She isn’t the only one in her family with an unusual birthplace: her half-siblings John and Katherine Rankin were both born in the Boundary ghost town of Phoenix. Above: Evelyn (nee Emilson) (centre) as Ymir May Queen 1939. Inset, right: Evelyn (with daughter Lorraine at right) celebrated her 90th birthday last year. She may be the only person left born in the Ymir hospital (inset left).

JOHNNY OLIVER: Gray Creek old-timer defied age

hen Johnny Oliver died last August at 92, Gray Creek lost its oldest oldtimer. But he sure didn’t act like it. He was a flirt and a card and would keep you in stitches. He joked that he was “127 per cent disabled” even as he continued to tend to his farm and extensive gardens. He said he had “thousands of friends and no enemies, but I don’t know why,” even though it was obvious to most. Born into a family that arrived in Gray Creek around 1905, Oliver grew up there and in Taghum, where his father worked in a sawmill. At 21, he joined the navy and reported for stoker training. (Seven other Olivers, brothers and cousins, also served in World War II.) He cleaned boilers for a year, then was drafted onto the HMCS Weyburn for Mediterranean service. On its way home, the ship struck a mine off Gibraltar and sank, killing eight. Despite his own injuries, Johnny carried a badly burned sailor to safety. He was the only one of 25 stokers he enlisted with to make the rank of CPO-ERA (chief petty officer/engine room artificer). On weekend leave in 1942, he went to London to visit his brother George, who was dating a girl named Florrie Griffin. At her house, Johnny saw a picture on the mantle of a woman who looked like Rita Hayworth. “Who in the hell is that?” he

asked. “That’s the girl you’re going to take to the show tonight,” George replied. “They don’t make ‘em like that in Canada,” Johnny said. So began a romance that war and prolonged absences couldn’t cool. Johnny and Grace only saw each other a few more times before they married on April 6, 1945. In Canada, though, things were tough for Grace. Stepping off the train in Procter, a woman told her: “We’re tired of you hussies marrying all our men!” Her mother-in-law didn’t approve of her either, for the Olivers were Catholic and Grace was Protestant. But gradually, their relationship improved. Johnny received his navy discharge in 1947, a year before his seven-year term was up. “I wanted to divorce the navy and hold on to Grace,” he said. “It was a good trade.” His father bought him a neighbouring property, which they turned into a working farm, with all the necessary outbuildings and a house for a growing family. Grace and Johnny had three kids, fostered several more, and became grandparents to the entire community. Grace was an excellent chef, but when she became wheelchairbound, Johnny looked after the meals. “She never complained about my cooking,” he said, “as long as I kept the thermos full of tea.” (Grace died in 2008, soon

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after her sister, who married Johnny’s brother.) Johnny spent 25 years with the highways department, then retired to work on his farm. Last year he led a tour of the property, which still had cows and chickens. The hay loft in particular was a favourite for visitors. He pointed out a gazebo he built when he was 90, and lamented that he couldn’t do as much as he used to, on doctors’ orders. “They won’t let me split wood or throw baled hay or anything hard. I can only work about a quarter of what I did 60 years ago,” he said. The Gray Creek museum days featured an exhibit on him and his family, including some tools he made in a navy mechanician course. Spotting a picture of himself around the time of his enlistment, he exclaimed: “Tear that down! Seventy years have turned me into an old man.” Hardly.

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JOE PERRIER: Generosity runs in the family

rthur Perrier was generous to a fault. During the Depression, the Poole Drug Co. proprietor extended credit to fellow Baker Street merchants, expecting them to pay him back. But his willingness to help others cost him his own livelihood: around 1931, the pharmacy went broke. “He lost out in the end because his accounts receivable dried up,” says his son Joe. “He had a black book with so much in it that he could have retired if anything had been paid back.” Joe, 84, is proud of his father, even though his giving nature sometimes came at the family’s expense. One night Arthur asked his wife what was for supper and she began to cry. “If you can find anything to eat, I’ll cook it,” she said. The

cupboard was bare. And Arthur also noticed his collection of gold coins was missing. His wife revealed she had been pinching one coin at a time for three years to pay for food and other groceries. Now there was nothing left. But just as they despaired about feeding themselves, there was a knock at the door. It was Wong, a Chinese market gardener who lived near their North Shore cabin. Joe, only a small child, had been catching gophers and giving them to Wong, who used them for stew. Wong sensed the family’s plight and presented them with a heaping basket of vegetables. “That was the best meal I ever had,” Joe said. “Every week after that, on Fridays, he brought the basket over and I kept trucking gophers to him.” It earned Joe his

father’s respect. Arthur came to Nelson from Ontario in 1896 and played for the city’s hockey team that won three consecutive championships. He was also secretary of the 1909 team that won the BC title with the Patrick brothers’ help. Late in life, he married Frances Maude Etter; he was 56 when Joe was born. They also had a daughter, Naida. When the crash hit, the family was forced to sell their home and buy a smaller one. Later, they lost the summer cabin as well. Arthur worked a string of jobs before getting on with the liquor board. “He’d get a job for maybe three weeks or a month,” Joe says. “We never saw the money, Mom and I. He paid his debt. He was that honest.” A day after Arthur’s death in 1948, an anonymous tribute appeared in the Daily News News, praising his honesty. Perrier Road was also named after him — sort of. It was city council’s intention to honour Arthur; their rationale for choosing that particular road was that he owned the Perrier mine at the top of the hill. Only he didn’t. “It’s true a Frenchman owned the mine,” Joe says. “But Perrier

was his white horse. He named the mine after a horse.” Joe, meanwhile, went to work at 16 for the forest service. He also worked for the highways department and the city’s electric utility, doing everything from firefighting to truck driving to carpentry to chasing delinquent bills. “I never had a [journeyman’s] ticket but I’ve done about 14 occupations,” he says. “Life has been interesting for me. And I married one hell of a good woman.” He and Vivian McGillivray met on the ice at the Civic Centre in 1949, but didn’t become serious until three years later. They married in 1953 and had five children. For the last 17½ years, Joe has been caregiver to Vivian, who suffered a bad fall. She’s now at Jubilee Manor, across the street from his apartment. He visits every day. Far left, top: Vivian McGillvray and Joe Perrier married in 1953. Far left, bottom: Arthur Perrier and friends at camp on the Johnstone estate on the North Shore in this undated but ca. 1900 photo. Left: Joe holds a photo of Nelson’s championship hockey club of 1901, which his father played for.

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JOAN REICHARDT: Commitment to community

oan Reichardt was fed up with Saskatchewan winters. After 22 years, she realized she couldn’t spend the rest of her life there. “It was the weather. The wind. The topography. The flatness. The nothing,” she says. “People were wonderful, and I still have friends there, but when you spend the summers dreading the winters, you know this is not the place.” It was 1968, and she and husband John had five kids, the oldest in high school. She felt some urgency to move while the family was all together. They looked at Kelowna, Victoria, and — because her husband’s sister had holidayed in Kaslo — Nelson. “When we drove into Nelson, I felt like I’d come home,” she says. “Around the courthouse, all these chestnut trees were in bloom. The town I came from in England had chestnut trees. It just felt right. I’ve never lost that feeling.” She made it plain how strongly Nelson appealed to her, and the family moved here that fall. Born in 1928 and raised near London during wartime, Reichardt lived through the Blitz. Sometimes she spent all day at school in an air raid shelter, returned home to change, and sheltered again at night. At 16, on a dare, she kissed a red-headed Canadian solider at a dance. She swept him off his feet — literally, for he stood 6'6" and she had to push him onto his seat

and hop on his lap to pucker up. They married in 1945, but soon after he went back to Canada. Ten months later, she followed: a two-week journey by oceanliner and train finally brought her to Saskatoon. (The marriage lasted 51 years until John’s death. Reichardt has since been active with war bride reunions, and in 2006 retraced her route.) In her new home, she was a stay-at-home mom and super-volunteer — less altriusim than a chance to get out and meet people, she says. But even as a girl in England, she heeded her grandmother’s advice that those born to fortunate circumstances must give back to others. During the war, young Joan organized a benefit concert for the Red Cross, collected canes for wounded soldiers, and amassed books for army camp libraries — until the local postmaster begged her to stop. Once in Nelson, however, she was determined to land a paying job, and found one that suited her perfectly: supervisor of homemaker services, today called home support. “I loved it. I went to work every day for the next 24 years and thoroughly enjoyed it.” She started out working

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opinion, she has been a frequent newspaper letter-writer, a critic of health care cuts, and an advocate for those less inclined to speak for themselves, especially seniors. In 1992, she was awarded Freedom of the City, the highest municipal honour. “I’ve had a really fun life and I’m very happy to be where I am now, because this is a beautiful and special place,” she says.

three half days per week with an annual budget of $3,500. By the time she retired, the budget was $3.5 million, and she was responsible for numerous programs aimed at keeping people in their homes despite age or mental or physical disability. Being far from Victoria, Reichardt had autonomy to try new things. She also became an expert at obtaining grants, or, as she puts it, “creative whining and snivelling.” Reichardt also sat on the boards of BC Transit and Mount St. Francis, served on the Nelson and District Housing Society for 27 years — a building at Cedar Grove Estates is named after her — and recently rejoined the Community First Health Co-op board. Never afraid to express her

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Left: Joan Reichardt’s first winter in Saskatchewan: “I looked like a teddy bear.” Below: Reichardt with her 1946 passport photo. It took two weeks to get from England to Saskatoon by boat and train.

JOE RINGROSE: Honouring the family name

wo milestones in local transportation history stand out among Joe Ringrose’s childhood memories. His family lived on the Nelson waterfront close to where the RCMP station is now, and as a two-year-old in 1946, he witnessed the launch of the new Kootenay Lake ferry. “I didn’t know what it was, but I remember all these people — I couldn’t see anything — and a band playing,” he says. “Eventually it cleared enough and here was the Anscomb.” Fast forward 11 years to the last run of the SS Moyie. Ringrose, who hawked the Vancouver Province, was trying to sell a souvenir edition when the old boat made its final stop in Nelson. “I hustled papers for an hour and a half,” he recalls. “I was aggressive. ‘Paper, sir? Paper, sir?’ But I never sold a single, solitary paper. Nobody wanted one. I was so depressed.” (As a consolation, the Province agent gave him a dollar.) Ringrose normally had better luck: he’d start at Lakeside Park, site of the ferry landing before the orange bridge was built, and stash papers at various spots, keeping only one in hand. Approaching a prospective customer, he’d ask: “Buy my last paper, sir?” “I don’t know if it worked,” he says. “[But] as a kid, I made good money. When an ice cream cone cost a nickel, if you sold 50 papers and made a buck and a half, you’d won the lottery.”

The park loomed large in the lives of Joe and brothers Bill and Bob. They were always at the lakeshore, often in an old row boat. One year the lake came up so high the whole park was flooded, and Joe remembers hanging onto the concession stand counter from the boat. He also recalls a large swing suspended from a huge cottonwood tree near the present greenhouse. Several kids could use it at once, with the oldest holding the chains, and the youngest in the middle. “We’d spend hours on it. When I finally got old enough to stand on one of the chains, a big windstorm blew a lot of those trees down.”

he Ringrose name has been around Nelson almost from the start. Joe’s grandfather, also Joseph Ringrose, installed the first phones for the Kootenay Lake Telephone Co. and worked on Nelson’s first hydro-electric plant on Cottonwood Creek. He married Jane Crichton Orr in 1897 and they had six children, two of whom died in infancy. Jane died in 1908, not long after giving birth, while tuberculosis claimed Joseph in 1914. The children were raised by their former housekeeper, Maggie Fraser. Three of the four kids never married. Charlotte had a long nursing career that took her to Balfour, Victoria, New York,

and Hawaii. Jim had a store on Nelson Ave., known for its ice cream cones. Alex ran a painting business and once had the contract to paint the smokestacks in Trail. Joe Jr. worked for the CPR as a bridge and building foreman. He married Ethel Lewis and they had three boys. Joe Ringrose — the third — spent 20 years as a mechanic with Plaza Gulf, where the 7-Eleven is now. Later, he worked for the provincial government as a mechanic, building superintendent, fleet manager, and in skills training.

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DOUG SMITH: Telephones in his blood

or Nelson’s Doug Smith, telephone work was all in the family. He spent 38 years with BC Tel, his father was a cable splicer for the company, a brother worked for them, and both his sisters were operators. “I was involved in it because my dad was,” he says. “It was sort of second nature.” His father Bob was among the first babies born in Vancouver, while his mother Esther (nee Habegard) was born in Ainsworth. The youngest of five children, Doug had a curly mop of hair and was once mistaken for the kidnapped Lindbergh baby. The family moved from Bealby Road to Third Street in Fairview when he was an infant, and he enjoyed a bucolic childhood that included rides with Chinese vegetable seller Wo Lee on a horse-drawn cart and tobogganing down Elwyn Street. On weekdays he rose at 5 a.m. to deliver newspapers, and on Saturdays tried to collect from customers. Even at a penny a paper it was sometimes difficult during the Depression. “Quite often they didn’t have the money and you had to go back,” he says. “My first summer job at Beacon Motors, I worked six days a week, ten hours a day, for $5 a week. It was that or a job with my own bicycle delivering for a drugstore for $4 a week. I thought there were too many hills!” Not that inclines intimidated

him: he and friends once climbed Silver King Ridge and skied down. “It took almost eight hours to get to the top, and 20 minutes to come down,” he laughs. After graduating from Nelson High School in 1947, Smith joined BC Tel, for whom he had worked summers. After a year he transferred to Cranbrook — where the local subsidiary was still known as the Kootenay Telephone Co. — and worked his way up to district manager. Subsequent moves took him to Kamloops and the Lower Mainland. His job also led to memorable encounters with two notable BC athletes. Soon after skier Nancy Greene won Olympic gold, BC Tel hired her to tour the province and speak to high school students. Smith squired her around Kamloops. Rick Hansen’s father worked for the phone company in Williams Lake when Hansen suffered his spinal cord injury. Smith arranged for them to be together in Vancouver during Hansen’s recovery, and later hired him as an operator. Technology never stands still in the phone industry. When Smith started with BC Tel, he installed and repaired crank phones. By the time he retired in 1986, party lines were nearly extinct, rotary dial was on its way out, and

the first cell phones had appeared. Smith has a collection of antique phones at his Queens Bay cabin — on a property his father bought as a result of periodically inspecting the phone line along the lake. “They would take a rowboat all the way to Kaslo, checking the line,” he says. “There was no road through Coffee Creek, so when they got to Queens Bay they’d stop and have lunch at the property we have now. He discovered he might be able to buy it.” The cabin hosted a royal tea

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when a childhood friend of Smith’s who commanded Princess Patricia’s namesake infantry brought her to see where he grew up. Smith returned to Nelson in 1994. He and wife Phyllis live at High Street Place — site of the old hospital where he was born. Below: Doug Smith with parents Bob and Esther. His curly mop of hair once resulted in his being mistaken for the Lindbergh baby. Bottom: Doug and wife Phyllis today.

ERIC SMITH: A Longbeach legacy

s long as there’s been a Longbeach, Eric Smith’s family has been a part of it. His uncle Henry arrived first in 1904, more or less by accident, and bought 90 acres, sight unseen. Then he raved about it to his brother, Commodore Burrard A. Smith. “He said what a wonderful country and climate it was out here in the Kootenays,” Eric explains. “So my dad took early retirement from the British navy and joined him.” According to a family history, Burrard was “surprised to find potatoes and slips of fruit trees growing in poorly prepared soil among the stumps,” but it was fine country with “many congenial men,” so he stayed. When Henry married, the brothers divided the property. The newlyweds got the shack and Burrard built a cabin called Owassa, reputedly a native word for “all alone,” but later renamed Craigend, after a Scottish castle. In 1912, Burrard married Edith Winifred Goodwin, who was credited with suggesting the name Longbeach for the area when the government wharf was built the following year. “Everything went fine and dandy,” Eric says, “until the Great War.” Henry joined the 54th Kootenay Battalion and died in France. Burrard was loaned to the newly formed Royal Canadian Navy and stationed at

Alert Bay, Halifax, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the Shetland Islands. His wife went with him, and Eric and brother David were born overseas. The family then returned to reinvigorate the dormant Craigend in 1919. The Smith boys were among the first to attend the new Longbeach school but Eric describes his education as “a fiasco.” “When I was young, every time I got nervous I would pass out,” he says. “When I went to Procter to take the Grade 8 exams, my nerves got the better of me. The second year was even worse. I didn’t even start. I turned my paper upside down and managed to get out the door before rolling down the steps and ended up covered in bruises.” Despite those anxieties, Eric took a diesel marine engineering course in Vancouver and landed his first job on a deep-sea tugboat — good experience, but no pay. With few prospects during the Depression, he returned home and did many jobs, including a summer as skipper of the forest service boat Amabilis. He landed an apprenticeship with a Montreal welding firm but hadn’t quite completed it when war began. He joined the RCAF and went overseas as an airframe mechanic. While stationed in Yorkshire he went to a party thrown by a girl named Greta Harrison, and invited her to the movies a few days later, sweetening the offer

with a box of chocolates. They married in 1944 and the following year came to Longbeach, where their first home was a fixed-up shack formerly used by relief camp workers. Although a welder by trade, Eric had a varied career. He built houses. He bought a rubber-tired tractor and offered

custom plowing and cultivating. He worked for Finning Tractor and Mac’s Welding, on the Kootenay Lake ferry, and at the Bluebell and HB mines. With his mechanical knowhow, he built woodstoves, sailboat stoves, and a cement sailboat. (The latter took eight years and was launched on a marine railway he devised using old track scavenged from local mines.) Although now living in

Nelson, Eric, 94, and Greta, 91 can still be found in the summer at Longbeach, where five acres remain in the family. In 2011, they turned the property over to their four children, heirs to a Longbeach legacy.

Top: Greta and Eric Smith moved to Nelson two years ago, but still spend much of the summer at Longbeach. Middle: Eric, about 1935. Bottom: Eric and Greta’s wedding photo. They marked 68 years in 2012.

JEAN STAHL: 70 years of Salmo memories

hen Salmo’s Jean Stahl was born in 1929, her father cut a deal with the

doctor. Ed Avery was a butcher in Hanna, Alta. and Dr. Wallace Cross was a family friend. “How much do I owe you for Jean’s birth?” Avery asked. “Well, how much do I owe you for meat?” Cross replied. “Oh, 14 something,” Avery said. “We’ll call it square,” Cross concluded. Stahl laughs: “He got me for the price of the meat!” (Cross, who was also Stahl’s godfather, later became Alberta’s health minister. An Edmonton cancer institute is named for him.) Stahl’s family — including mother Dorothy and younger brothers Lorne and Ron — later moved to East Coulee, where her dad worked for a grain elevator and drove dray for the coal mines. In 1937, he and some friends came to BC, and found jobs in the Silverton mines. He brought the family out that September, and Jean loved it: their new house had a third bedroom, a dining room, and a

bathroom to boot. But three years later, they moved again to Salmo when her dad found work at the Sheep Creek gold mine. Mae Larson, a girl a little younger than Jean who had also lived in Silverton, showed her around. “I cried when I got home,” Stahl says. “They didn’t even have a sidewalk in Salmo! I wasn’t very thrilled at all.” However, the friendship endured: Mae is now in Vernon, but they still phone each other two or

three times a week. “When I die, they’re to take my bag of ashes, poke a hole in it, and go from the service station over to Mae’s place, back and forth, until it’s all gone,” Stahl says. “I travelled that road lots.” Her parents bought the Shell station in 1943 and ran it for 13 years, along with an ice cream parlour and bus depot. Despite this, her father also worked for Caddie Donaldson, who had the Esso station. She was there the day a pompous inspector accidentally started a huge fire that consumed the oil shed. “The fire truck came out from Nelson on the old highway in 27 minutes,” Stahl says. “That was quite a feat. It used to take us over an hour!” Jean went to school in nearby Erie for a year — she has a rare picture of the building before it burned — and graduated from the old Salmo high school in a class of six. She worked in the post office for a couple of years and saw the last Sheep Creek gold brick go through. She also recalls the night thieves dynamited the safe but went away empty-handed. “There were three mines running and no bank in Salmo,” she says. “The miners used to come down and send all these money orders home. The time they blew up the safe wasn’t a

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payday weekend, so there was hardly anything in it.” She took a business course and worked in Regina for medical supplier Fisher and Burpee, but missed her mother and the mountains. In less than a year she returned home to work at the HB mine, and there met hard rock miner Kurt Stahl, whom she married in 1956. They had four children. Although it’s been more than five decades since her family ran the old Shell, it lives on in the memories of a few old-timers. “There’s one fellow in his 90s in Fruitvale. Every time I see him, he’ll tell whoever’s around: ‘Her mother made the best milkshakes!’” Left, from top: Jean (right) with friend Shirleigh Waterstreet (Longeran); the Averys ran the Shell station in Salmo from 1943-56; Jean and her family moved to Salmo on September 26, 1940; Jean Stahl in her Salmo home today.

MAVIS STAINER: A living link to Ainsworth history

o know Mavis Stainer is to know Ainsworth’s past. Her father, John Bradley (Pop) Fletcher, died 40 years ago, but thanks to Stainer and her siblings, his name is perpetuated in large letters on his old general store. Fletcher came with his family from Ontario to Fort Steele, where his mother ran a boarding house, then joined Fink’s mercantile in Cranbrook. In 1912 he swapped positions with J.P. Fink, who worked at Henry Giegerich’s store in Ainsworth. Eventually Fletcher bought Giegerich out and put his own name on the building. In Ainsworth, he met and married Gladys Currie, who came from Regina to visit her uncle Jim, a local miner. The couple had five kids including Stainer, who today lives next to the hot springs in the family home her father acquired through a debt owed to the store by a California mining engineer. In 1926, a primitive road was blasted around the Coffee Creek bluffs, at last linking Ainsworth to Nelson and Kaslo by means other than sternwheeler. The ribbon cutting was one of the biggest events in the community’s history. “I can remember the celebration,” says Stainer, 90. “My sister Eileen and I were all dressed up. They had a big archway. Oh my goodness, it was just packed with people. We weren’t used to so many. The store was full.” She also recalls an “old fellow with a white beard” orating from the store’s porch. That was Premier

John Oliver. Stainer went to school until Grade 8 in Ainsworth, then took correspondence courses. For a few summers, she was a chef ’s helper and chambermaid in the Silver Ledge Hotel, the first of several now-vanished hotels she worked in.

The second was the Outlet Hotel at Procter, where she toiled long hours — sometimes from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. — for $30 a month and quit once she saved enough to attend hairdressing school.

Another was the Hotel Castlegar, which she and husband Paul owned for a decade. Back then, the SS Minto still plied the Arrow Lakes, and they got a lot of boat trade. They also helped run hotels at Kamloops and Williams Lake before taking over Nelson’s Villa

Motel. Stainer returned to Ainsworth when her mother’s health failed. Her father, meanwhile, worked in the store practically until the day he died at 88. “He never retired,” she says.

“That store was his whole life.” He usually opened at 9 a.m., but they never knew when he would get home. He worked six or seven days a week, and hated closing on holidays — he couldn’t resist opening for at least a few hours in case someone needed a loaf of bread. He had no staff, but often enlisted his family’s help. During the Depression, his wife and son Jack looked after the Ainsworth store while he worked at Fink’s in Nelson and roomed at the Strathcona Hotel with daughters Doris and Corinne, who attended high school. The store closed not long after Pop died in 1973 and sat idle while Stainer, who inherited her mother’s interest in local history, formed the J.B. Fletcher Restoration Society. In 1988, the refurbished store reopened as a museum. With all its original fixtures, it looks much as it did when Pop Fletcher arrived in Ainsworth a century ago, and indeed, when it was built in 1896. You can see it for yourself during the summer. Above: Mavis Fletcher Stainer, age 29 or 30. Inset, left: the J.B. Fletcher store in Ainsworth has been a museum since 1988. Inset right: Stainer in 2001, at the launch of High Grade & Hot Springs, a history of Ainsworth.

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YOSH TAGAMI: Uprooted

ongtime Nelson resident Yosh Tagami remembers working for 25 cents an hour building internment shacks on the Popoff farm near Slocan City. He was 17 and his family would soon move into one of those houses, which measured 14 x 25 feet. “The first winter was cold with four feet of snow, and icicles formed inside so we put cardboard from boxes on the walls,” he says. There was no insulation beyond paper and shiplap, and no indoor plumbing. Wooden bunk beds lay at either end of the house with a kitchen in the middle. They used a wood stove for cooking and heating. “Rice was rationed and we made green tea from alfalfa leaves,” he says. “We had a garden and also bought vegetables from the Doukhobors who came in horse-driven wagons.” Tagami, now in his mid80s, was born at Genoa Bay on Vancouver Island and raised at Paldi, a sawmill community near Duncan. He had four brothers and two sisters. Their father Jirosaku, a millwright, was injured in a fall and unable to work, so the sons began logging as teenagers. Life was actually starting to get easier for them when word came in 1942 that Japanese Canadians were to be removed from the coast. “We’d just bought a new stove and washing machine,” Tagami recalls. “We had to get rid of

them for next to nothing, because we had to leave within so many hours. We got a pittance.” What they couldn’t sell was stored at a Japanese hall, which was ransacked after they left. At Hastings Park in Vancouver, they were corralled like cattle. His parents’ quarters were in a partitioned horse stall with twin beds. “The stench from years of horse urine soaked in the floors was enough to make a healthy person ill,” he says. After five months, they were sent to Slocan City and housed in a mining bunkhouse with several other families while the shacks were under construction. Yosh attended Anglican school, although most people went to Catholic school. Afterward he joined his brothers at a horse logging camp at Six Mile Lakes, where they earned $4.50 per day using springboards and crosscut saws. “After the war, we moved into a house in town. The government told us to go east of the Rockies or to Japan. We didn’t know what to do so we just hung on and later they let us stay.” The Tagami brothers continued to work in the Slocan woods — Yosh remembers lugging around an early, massive chainsaw — and established their own mill. In 1955, Yosh married and moved to Nelson, where he worked in home construction. Later he joined Ellison’s, first in the warehouse, and then in

management. He spent more than 30 years with the business and retired at 64. He and a sister, who also lives in Nelson, are the last of the seven siblings. He’s been back to their old home at Paldi a couple of times. “There’s nothing there now. You can hardly tell where our houses were 60 years later. It’s all overgrown. It was only a small place to begin with. Now it’s all bush, trees, and the only thing left is a Hindu temple.”

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Below: Even before World War II, all Japanese Canadians were fingerprinted and photographed for identity cards when they turned 16. Yosh Tagami went to Victoria to have his done. Bottom: The Tagami family was interned on the Popoff farm, just south of Slocan City.

BETTY TILLOTSON: Mainstay of The Smallholder

he first time Betty Tillotson and her family visited Argenta, she left thinking “Beautiful place, lovely people, but we couldn’t live there. It’s too remote.” By the time they reached Balfour, however, she changed her mind. “We got to the ferry and it came back twice for people left behind. We thought ‘Wow, isn’t that great? This might be a good place to live.’” The idea stuck with her, and in 1972, Tillotson and her four children moved to Argenta from White Rock. “I spent a while worrying, because I said we weren’t going unless they all agreed,” she recalls. “And when they did, I realized I didn’t have to make up my mind. It was great to have them want to be on this new adventure.” Her neighbours were friendly and helpful, although after one privately complained “It’ll just be another single woman with a washing machine we’ll have to help fix,” Tillotson resolved to learn to fix her own things. She bought a 25-acre property and decided to share it with others. Today half a dozen people live there in a co-op and divy up garden space and other amenities. “It’s worked into an extended family,” Tillotson says.

She began teaching at the Argenta Friends (Quaker) school and soon became involved with The Smallholder, a fledgling publication about rural living. A recent issue — No. 117, comprising pages 3,118 to 3,148 — contained letters from as near as New Denver and as far away as Kerikeri, New Zealand.

It’s delightfully low-tech, produced on a “misbehaving” typewriter. The editorial salutation welcomed a new subscriber in Fairfax, Virginia and lamented that for the first time, some items are accompanied by email addresses only, without mailing addresses. The press run is 450 and it comes out “at least twice a year.” The Argenta Friends Press has

indicated it will continue to print The Smallholder as long as Tillotson and others put in the effort, but at 87, she’s not sure how long that will be. “I do all the editing and typing and then somebody puts it on a light table and does the layout. Those things require a lot of commitment. But it’s worth it because so many people want it.” Tillotson came to Canada in 1967 from Modesto, Calif., where she was active in Vietnam war resistance. The last straw was when her eight-year-old son asked: “Daddy, which jail will I go to when I get to be 18?” “We thought no child should ever have to ask that,” Tillotson says. In Vancouver, she worked with the Committee to Aid American War Objectors. “That was a good experience. Lots of people helped us find jobs for people or places where they could stay. And the whole Canadian population was sympathetic at that time.” Through her Friends connections she heard about Argenta, where Quaker families settled in the 1950s. Despite reports to the contrary, she says their Friends meetings are not dying. While the school closed in 1982 and the Friends Press is

mostly inactive, more people have joined in recent years and they’ve raised money for water systems in Haiti. Comparing the community as she first saw it to today, she notes “it still has some of the same good things with people caring about each other.” Fewer people make their own entertainment — Sunday soccer games and big Halloween parties don’t happen as much — “but I do think the feeling is still there.” Forty years on, Tillotson is an Argenta elder, pleased to see people in their 80s and 90s talking with little kids: “It’s always been a community where age didn’t matter much.” Left: Argenta bibliophile Betty Tillotson is seen at Packrat Annie’s in Nelson. She’s the longtime editor of The Smallholder (above).

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RED WASSICK: Lessons learned on the high seas

t was an early morning on the North Atlantic and the HMCS Guelph was being lashed by yet another storm. The ship was on escort duty, helping to protect merchant freighters sailing between Newfoundland and Londonderry, Northern Ireland from German U-boat attacks. The sea was notoriously rough. As huge waves crashed against the ship, someone yelled: “We’ve got a man over!” Nelson’s Harry (Red) Wassick didn’t see it happen, but was close by on deck and dropped everything to help. He discovered he knew the crewmate in distress, who had been stationed on the pom pom gun, which could fire both across and at aircraft. The water was too choppy to launch a lifeboat, but at least it was light enough to see, and a rescue net was tossed over the side. As the ship maneuvered to locate his lost comrade, Wassick spotted him on top of the waves, trying to get closer. He wore a life

preserver — a Mae West, they called it, after the busty movie star — but Wassick could tell his crewmate was getting tired. “I’ve got to do something,” he thought. And the best thing, he decided, was to jump in. Not yet out of his teens, Wassick was in excellent shape — he’d played junior hockey in Trail

and was a strong swimmer from summers in Kootenay Lake — but wasn’t tethered to anything as he plunged in. Ignoring the risk he was taking, Wassick latched on to his fellow sailor, only for the ship to lurch and pull them both down. The other man — a “big, powerful guy” — resurfaced and got one hand on the net, while Wassick held him from the other side. By now, another crew member joined them in the water and together they hauled the exhausted man to safety. Reflecting on the dramatic rescue today, Wassick chuckles that once the fellow recovered, they worked side-by-side in the ship’s galley. “It worked out pretty good,” he says. “We had another cook aboard, but he ended up with some problem. I needed somebody, so the skipper said well, you brought this guy out, so he’s going to work with you. I said good deal!” The man’s name was Williams and he was from Port Arthur, Ont., but Wassick can’t remember his first name and doesn’t know what happened to him after the war. While that incident had a happy ending, not all of Wassick’s shipmates were as lucky — others were swept overboard never to be seen again. In fact, he says, the weather was far more formidable during his Navy service than the enemy,

which he never saw firsthand. “It wasn’t the U-boats that did damage,” he says. “It was Mother Nature.” Wassick, a Hall Siding native, enlisted in 1942 when he was 17. He spent about three years at war, including time aboard the minesweeper Fort Frances. He signed up for duty in Japan, but surrender came while he was still on leave. Since he’d been gone, he’d grown from a teenager into a young man. The following year he married Dorothy, a Nelson girl, at St. Saviour’s church. They have five children, ten grandchildren, and ten great grandchildren. Wassick and his brother took over the Occidental Hotel from their father and changed its name to the Civic (it’s now Finley’s). Red then ran a hotel at Athalmer in East Kootenay for a year and a half before coming back to Nelson and going to work in forestry. He also resumed his athletic pursuits, patrolling the blueline for a few seasons with the Nelson Maple Leafs and playing senior baseball and lacrosse. Now in his late 80s, Wassick has outlived most of his Naval buddies, except one in Kitchener, Ont., who he still keeps in touch with. Left, top: Harry (Red) and Dorothy Wassick have been married for more than 65 years. Bottom:Wassick spent three years in the Navy during World War II, and helped rescue a man who fell overboard in the North Atlantic.

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BUSTER WIGG: The man who saved the courthouse

avid (Buster) Wigg, who died last year at 88, saved the Nelson courthouse from destruction half a century ago. His impulsive, heroic feat of February 4, 1962 came after several bombs were planted inside the building. Wigg, a cab driver, was sitting in the Red Top taxi stand at Wait’s News that evening when someone came in shouting that the courthouse was on fire. Fire trucks responded within seconds, but went the wrong way, turning onto Baker Street instead of continuing down Ward — an alarm had been set off near the Bank of Montreal, probably as a distraction. Wigg and fellow cabbie Bill Morris ran down to the courthouse and found the top panel of glass in the front door blown out. With a doormat, they kicked out the rest and Wigg went inside. He found the foyer filled with smoke, and flames racing up the walls and ceiling. Worse, four bombs in half-gallon cans lay on the entrance floor and basement staircase, about to go off. With his bare hands, Wigg snuffed the first device, then wrapped a piece of plastic from a light fixture around it, went outside and threw it over the stone wall. He repeated the procedure with the second bomb, but then a police officer pulled up, believing Wigg to be the culprit. After

exchanging a few choice words, Wigg sent him to redirect the fire department. Back inside he dealt with the third bomb, but this one was in a glass jar, and as he tried to put it out, flames shot out, singeing his fingers. When the fire truck finally arrived, Wigg grabbed a shovel, scooped up the burning jar and threw it onto the pavement, where it exploded. Firefighters then defused the fourth bomb and put out the blaze, which caused $1,500 damage (about $11,500 in today’s currency). A large crowd gathered, but Wigg couldn’t stick around: he had to get back on shift. His wife only learned of the incident when the Daily News phoned. No one was ever charged with the bombing, but the Sons of Freedom were blamed, as it came on the eve of sentencing for three radical members. Investigators found whoever did it got in through a basement window — and actually prevented the fire from spreading by closing a door. Wigg suffered only minor burns. “It just made me mad,” he said at the time. “When I thought of that beautiful building being gutted, I didn’t think of anything else except saving it.” Interviewed at his home in 2001 — coincidentally the day of the US terrorist attacks — he was still reluctant to take much credit, as though defusing explosives was an everyday part of his job.

“It’s just something you do,” he chuckled. “I’d have done it again regardless. That’s my nature. I’m not one to sit by and let it happen.” Wigg received commendations from the mayor, premier, and fire commissioner’s office, but a plaque promised in his honour never happened. (Not everyone thought so highly of his actions; Morris, his co-worker, called him “a damn fool.”) Wigg had long Nelson roots. His grandparents were among the first permanent settlers on the West Arm, and his mother, Mabel Shannon, was the first registered birth in Nelson. She married Albert Wigg, who worked for the CPR, and they raised ten children at 413 Silica Street.

After retiring from the taxi business in 1985, Buster and wife Chrystal wintered in Arizona. He passed away October 23. In a tribute to his bravery, an honour guard from the BC Sheriff service attended his funeral. Below: David (Buster) Wigg, seen here in 2001 on the day of the US terrorist attacks, thwarted an attempted bombing of the Nelson courthouse over 50 years ago.

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